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I think the bush has been officially beaten dead. People will have their opinions and I suspect that the opposing views will not move off their stance regardless of what the other poster states.
Diverting the thread a little, but for me, I wonder how this is going to play out now since the DOD will be shutting down ROTC units as a cost saving aspect. Does it make sense to open one at Harvard, when as everyone admits, Harvard students always had the option, but it was a x-town situation?
How is this cost effective, unless they are going to say the rent that ROTC pays to Harvard will be less or that the bulk of the cadets are coming from Harvard and not other schools?
People forget ROTC leases the buildings from the college. The college does not give them rooms for free. ROTC is a tenant at the college which costs money. Moving a unit will require money from a physical standpoint along with a man hour standpoint...takes hours to re-do those web sites, man hours to change phone numbers and those pretty glossy papers. If they are saying this addition to the already existing unit, than is that not Fraud, Waste and Abuse?
Good points Pima. Frankly the location of the main unit should depend on the cadet population size and distribution in the Boston area. Given the Army's growing interest in STEM majors and the AF and Navy's abiding interest, I expect this to be MIT for years to come. I would hope the policy makers invest just enough $ to make ROTC visible at Hahvahd and reasonably convenient for students to participate and no more.