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Smith, who obtained his doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1993 from Stanford University, worked in the industrial field designing computer chips and central processing unit boards before beginning his teaching career...
...work of piecing all six incidents together continued yesterday, as Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) detectives worked with Cambridge detectives and members of the Cambridge Police Department's crime analysis unit...
...again, with the fundamental question of whether gays should be allowed to serve openly in the armed forces. The blitzkrieg of moral and military dilemmas unleashed by the debate is daunting and asking difficult questions is therefore essential. Equality is a noble goal, but how far should it extend? Unit cohesion is desirable, but is it ever moderated by other considerations? Unfortunately, neither the left nor the right has cared...
...when so basic a civic capacity as defending one's country is at stake. Discrimination on the basis of lifestyle is a clear-cut violation of individual dignity and self-determination, and as such cannot be countenanced. Conservatives take issue with such claims, objecting usually on the basis of unit cohesion. Rights, so the reasoning goes, are meaningful only insofar as a state can stay independent enough to secure them. Fighting power is the overriding imperative. Openly gay soldiers might impair the unit cohesion integral to an effective army, and for this reason alone they should not serve...
...Andrews, on the other hand, is concerned more with the good of the unit than the idea of all kinds of people working together. "The military is based on teamwork and unity, and a team only works best together with absolute trust," Andrews says. Looking at society, Andrews sees friction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, and he doesn't want that interfering with the efficiency of ROTC. In general society, there is friction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, so the military is really no different. It took time for men to be able to work side by side with women...