The military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy has received attention among Harvard students and administrators recently as some have publicly denounced the stance on disclosing sexual orientation.
This week, Harvard President Drew G. Faust had planned to criticize the policy concerning at the University’s ROTC commissioning ceremony, but opted for a more subtle approach.
In late May, four Harvard students were arrested during a national tour to protest the policy.
At Harvard ROTC event, Faust plans to criticize ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
On Wednesday morning, Faust will address the graduating members of Harvard’s Reserve Officer Training Corps in Tercentenary Theatre, and her pledge to use the speech to criticize the miltary’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which bars openly gay individual from serving in the armed forces, has already drawn fire from conservative and pro-military groups across the country.
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In ROTC address, Harvard president mutes criticism of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
After pledging to address the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in her speech at the ROTC commissioning ceremony this morning, University President Drew G. Faust shied away from directly mentioning the issue, opting instead to use more general language like “principles of inclusion.”
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Four Harvard students arrested in gay rights protest
Four members of Harvard’s “Right to Serve” tour were arrested Wednesday morning at a military recruiting station in Portland, Maine on the charge of criminal trespassing.
The arrested members were Samantha G.M. Barnard ’09, Robert J. Ross ’09, Amary K. Wiggin ’09, and Jacob P. Reitan, a Harvard Divinity School student who first conceived of the tour.
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Harvard students touring to protest military’s ‘Don’t ask’ policy
When Harvard College LGBT Political Coalition administrative chair Clayton W. Brooks III ’10 was 16, he said he wanted to show support for his country by serving in the U.S. Naval Academy. But he said he would not enlist as anything other than a gay man, and so a military policy barring openly homosexual or bisexual recruits kept him away.
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Column: Why Harvard hates America
Any Harvard student with the balls to participate in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) deserves our respect. Quite frankly, ROTC doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun.
For four years, cadets and midshipmen wake up obscenely early in order to trek to MIT and get yelled at by their instructors. That’s an indignity that Harvard usually reserves for accounting students. If you want to know what visceral discomfort looks like, watch a Harvard ROTC student shuffle across campus in his military uniform.
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Column: Harvard leftists shouldn’t play politics with ROTC
Last year, with her schedule presumably packed with planning the details of her incipient administration, President-elect Drew G. Faust neglected to attend the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony.
This spring, however, she has indicated that she will grace the proceedings not only with her presence but also with a short sermon.