Harvard, Yale open up to ROTC plans after 'don't ask, don't tell' vote

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: CNN

The presidents of Harvard and Yale universities have expressed interest in ROTC programs after Congress voted to repeal the military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has banned openly gay and lesbian service members.

The universities' statements come five months after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, then a Supreme Court nominee, came under criticism by Republican senators who complained that she actively tried to block military recruiters from Harvard Law School when she was dean because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Kagan and the White House have strongly defended her actions, saying that while she opposed the military's policy, Kagan never kept recruiters off the university.

Four months after taking the job as Harvard's dean, in October 2003, Kagan offered students her thoughts in a campus-wide e-mail, saying that to give recruiters equal access to the campus "causes me deep distress. I abhor the military's discriminatory recruitment policy." She called it "a profound wrong - a moral injustice of the first order."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/21/harvard.yale.dadt/

[MadMaddie]

1. So I guess the Republican talking point about Harvard and Yale

being anti-American and anit-military will go to the wayside.

Another talking point eliminated..check

[CTyankee]

2. Good. The elite take their place in the fight for equality and human rights.

Which they already were doing...but now it is the right thing to do to let people know...