Word: rotcs
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Cohen said he supports bringing the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program back to Harvard to bring more “Harvard liberals” into the country’s officer corps...
...It’s easier to achieve consensus about social goals than political ones, since within our ranks we certainly harbor a spectrum of divergent opinions about issues like queer studies or ROTC,” says Marcel Q.A. LaFlamme ’04, the public relations chair...
...actually do it. The people taking it over that day were a splinter group. Since we had been thinking of a takeover, we did have six demands—then we added two more to make eight at the takeover. Three of them had to do with kicking ROTC off campus. I don’t remember them exactly, I have a shirt at home with them all silk-screened onto it. The other original three had to do with stopping Harvard expansion into the community. One of the two demands added during the demonstration was to create an Afro...
...Still, ROTC is about more than getting a good job eventually or paying for school, and a military commitment is certainly not just another extracurricular. The cadets and midshipmen don’t get too sentimental about it, though. King comes the closest. Because he joined ROTC in his sophomore year, he spent five weeks last summer at a “lateral entry camp” where he caught up on the training he had missed. He says the drill sergeants at Fort Knox, where he attended this camp, talked a lot about how to talk about the army...
...Freshman year I had some doubts. I knew that the tuition attracted me and I knew that was the wrong reason,” says cadet Persons. At first she thought that she would join the Air Force to pay for Harvard. Years in ROTC have changed her mind. “Now I’m going to Harvard so I can join the Air Force,” she says...