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...have explained in detail in the past why Harvard should reject ROTC money. The bottom line is that such money is unabashedly intended for non-gays only, The U.S. military doesn't even hide its blatant discrimination, and Harvard should have no part...
...have even played the game the way ROTC proponents want when they argue that without ROTC funds, some students couldn't afford to attend Harvard. The answer to this dilemma is a better financail aid system that gives more help to the middle class. Regardless of who would benefit, Harvard should not even consider accepting money so clearly intended to exclude a group of Americans. Harvard would never consider accepting ROTC funds if they discriminated against women of any other minority group. That it does so where gays, lesbians and bisexuals are concerned provides a horrifying commentary on the University...
Does the committee really expect MIT to incur a $32,000 cost to help Harvard spinelessly attempt to uphold a principle which MIT doesn't even accept? If so, the committee members are decidedly stupid. Or does the committee expect MIT to reject the College's ROTC students, thereby effectively ending the ROTC program at Harvard? If so, the committee members are cynical and devious...
More plausibly, the committee expects MIT to change the Harvard's ROTC cadets a fee to participate in their program. This expense will either come out of cadets' pockets or, more likely, from ROTC itself. And that makes sense even without a moral argument--ROTC, not Harvard, should carry any financial burden resulting from the program...
More broadly, Harvard's jellyfish-like behavior in the ROTC matter makes us uneasy about how the Rudenstine-Green-Knowles trifecta plans to deal with problems at the University. The administration's ham-handed attempts to look contemplative over what should have been a clear moral decision have only revealed the extent to which Harvard has not changed even with all its new administrative faces...