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ROTC Coverage Added Recently

  • 5 May 2008 Harvard Crimson column "Honoring Their Service: Campus leftists should not play politics with ROTC" by Christopher B. Lacaria ’09.  Note:  "DADT has been hotly debated for quite some time, both on campus and in American society at large. No political position—no tacit countenancing of DADT—would be implied were President Faust not to speak of the matter."
  • 2 May 2008 Harvard Crimson column "Why Harvard Hates America: Faust is right to rain on ROTC’s parade" by Adam Goldenberg ’08.  Note: Goldenberg asserts that ROTC "doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun" and is "glory-free self-sacrifice", ironically appearing the same day as an article about ROTC students flying over Harvard in helicopters.  Goldenberg also writes that "military officers now being educated at Harvard and elsewhere should rightly have their service tinted by the discrimination of DADT, at their commissioning and elsewhere."
  • 2 May 2008 Harvard Crimson article "Riding With the Paul Revere Battalion: ROTC experience includes helicopter ride-along and Meals Read to Eat".  Note:  "We took off slowly, flying over the intramural fields and crossing the river, past undergraduate Houses and Memorial Hall on our way out of Cambridge."  See also photos here.
  • 30 April 2008 Harvard Crimson article "Faust To Address ROTC Cadets".  Note:  President Faust will speak at ROTC Commissioning in June and said that "while she had not yet written her speech, she planned to say that she hoped “every Harvard student had the opportunity to serve in the military.” "
  • 29 April 2008 Harvard Crimson article "Dems and Republicans Unite on ROTC Bill".  Note:  The undergraduate council urged Harvard to list on transcripts ROTC courses taken at MIT, even though no credit is given.  The council also urged continuation of the annual ROTC Commissioning ceremony, and the Crimson reports that President Faust "has said that she will be speaking at the commissioning ceremony this June".  The Crimson also refers to Andrew D. Fine ’09 as saying that "Harvard should pressure the military to drop the “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy", but DADT is a federal law that can only be changed by Congress.
  • 23 April 2008 Harvard Crimson editorial "Faust's Prerogative: Harvard should bring back ROTC, but not before the end of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”".  Note:  The Crimson commends President Drew Faust for agreeing to be part of the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony in June, and calls for the restoration of ROTC if the "Don't ask, don't tell" law is "ended".  It also suggests "When President Faust speaks at the commissioning ceremony this June, we hope she will seize on this important moment—a moment in which she will likely have the ear of high-ranking military officials as well as media—to draw attention to the disgusting nature of this policy. Faust ought to specifically criticize “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and call for it to end."
  • 19 April 2008 The White Rhino Report Blog item "Black Hawk Up - History Made at Harvard".  Note:  Coverage of the landing of the First Army Helicopters at Harvard. 
  • 18 April 2008 First Army Helicopters at Harvard.  Note:  Two Army Black Hawk helicopters landed at Harvard's Soldiers Field to airlift ROTC cadets of the Paul Revere Battalion to their training destination at Ft. Devens. 
  • 18 April 2008 Harvard Crimson article "Faust To Attend ROTC Event".  Note: "University President Drew G. Faust will attend this year’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony during Commencement, continuing a new precedent set by her predecessor Lawrence H. Summers."  According to a spokesman Faust will be “part of the program”, but it was unclear whether she will be following Summers' tradition of speaking at the event.
  • 14 April 2008 Speech by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates.  Note:  Gates said he is "working on a program to improve the language skills of the military through ROTC. Currently, language training, when it occurs, generally requires that we send troops to specialized schools – in effect, pulling them off the line for a period of time. It seems to me it would be preferable to integrate this training earlier, and so we have been looking at financial incentives for ROTC cadets to take language classes while undergraduates. Some languages are not offered at all schools, and so we are looking also at ways to award grants to schools to expand their language and cultural offerings to cadets...  We must move past whatever antagonism to ROTC still exists and demonstrate respect at the highest levels for those who choose to serve – whether that is by attending ROTC commissioning ceremonies, actively promoting the military as a career option, or giving full support to military recruiters on campus regardless of whether that access is tied to federal funding."
  • 2 April 2008 Northwest Florida Daily News article "McCain touts military in Pensacola".  Note:  Senator McCain said "we could and should call on universities to allow ROTC a presence on their campuses... That they (students) are frequently denied that privilege is disgraceful... The United States military defends the freedom of all of us, including students and professors at leading institutes of higher learning. For some of those same institutions to refuse to allow future officers, who will one day risk their lives to protect us, to train for their responsibilities on their campuses is unfair, ungrateful and very poor citizenship."
  • Spring 2008 Columbia Owl article "Invaluable Vets".  Note: Columbia "boasts the largest number of vets in the Ivy League".  Provost Alan Brinkley said “The opposition to ROTC was based on the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy that violates our own anti-discrimination rules...  I don’t believe those who opposed ROTC on those grounds had any animus towards veterans or the military.”

Older material added recently:

  • 14 March 2007 Cornell Daily Sun column "Orgies, Adultery and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" by Bill McMorris.  Note: McMorris argues that homosexuality is but one of many areas in which the tolerance of the university and the military are, and should be different.  "In July 1998, 10 United States naval personnel, seven male and three female, participated in an orgy in a Hong Kong hotel room. Every sailor, regardless of their sexual orientation, was charged, indicted and found guilty of “adultery, sodomy and fraternization.” No one had any problem with the moral judgment that was cast down upon these sailors."   
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Last updated: 06 May 2008