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President faust, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. tell us how you reached this decision. was there a tipping point? >> i thought about this decision a great deal during my initial years as president, and it seemed to me that the sentiment on campus really focused on the don't ask, don't tell law and how that inhibited opportunities for our students. and that that really was the barrier to the return of rotc. and i began saying that in public statements, and indicated that with the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, we would move forward in welcomi...
The president of harvard and the navy secretary will sign an agreement today allowing the rotc to return to campus. the change will end decades of dispute over war and military policy. it was the height of the vietnam war. and on harvard university's brik and ivy campus in the heart of cambridge, massachusetts, the anti-war movement was celebrating a symbolic victory, the banning of rotc, the reserve officer's training corps from harvard yard. the students who received scholarship money for training in the military. when the vietnam war ended, another battle took its place, between harvard and...
Rotc, that they somehow were warmongers or nonthinking individuals. you know, misperceptions, clearly, but how do you tackle that aspect, that the culture on campus, or people who feel that way or think that way about people in the military? >> i don't believe that this is the culture on our campus now. there's a student who was commissioned last year, a young woman named shawna sunot, and she wrote me a letter after her commission, and said she was a little fearful coming to harvard, thinking she might encounter a culture like the one you just described. and that is not, she said -- that was ...