Harvard shamefully reopens campus to ROTC while throwing transgender students under the bus
by: Lurleen
Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 19:28:15 PM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18269/harvard-shamefully-reopens-campus-to-rotc-while-throwing-transgender-students-under-the-busThis has me absolutely fuming. Once DADT has been repealed, Harvard University will reopen its campus to ROTC.
I look forward to pursuing discussions with military officials and others to achieve Harvard's full and formal recognition of ROTC. I am very pleased that more students will now have the opportunity to serve their country. I am grateful to the Massachusetts delegation for their unified support for repeal.
-- Harvard President Drew Faust
ROTC was banished from Harvard in the first place because the military was in violation of the university's non-discrimination policy. But guess what? Even with repeal of DADT the US military still continues to discriminate against transgender people, a clear violation of Harvard's policy:
