A harsh condemnation of Harvard’s treatment of ROTC
Via Wall Street Journal:
How different this is from Harvard. On its Web page, Harvard Law School cites the university’s nondiscrimination policy and then goes on to describe how it lives up to that principle:
“The Harvard Law School makes one exception to this policy. Under threat of loss of funding to the University resulting from the Solomon Amendment, the Law School has suspended the application of its nondiscrimination policy to military recruiters.”
You don’t have to be a lawyer to get the point: Even though we are one of the world’s wealthiest universities, we’d rather make an exception to our principles than give up the money. So we’ll do what the Solomon Amendment requires and hold our noses.
Merely by attending tomorrow’s commissioning ceremony, Harvard President Drew Faust will continue a tradition started a few years ago. That’s progress from the days when Harvard presidents simply ignored the whole thing. Yet the ceremony highlights a disquieting contrast: between those young Harvard officers who will take an oath requiring adherence to principle even at the cost of their lives — and leaders, such as those at their university, whose actions make clear their principles have a price.
