Last year, with her schedule presumably packed with planning the
details of her incipient administration, President-elect Drew G. Faust
neglected to attend the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
commissioning ceremony. This spring, however, she has indicated that
she will grace the proceedings not only with her presence but also with
a short sermon.
Far be it for President Faust simply to honor her charges for
their decision to serve: She must also, to confirm the politically
correct prejudices that govern the Academy, use the opportunity for
ideological grandstanding.
Aside from commending the soon-to-be lieutenants and ensigns,
President Faust will use her pulpit at the ROTC ceremony to decry the
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, which precludes homosexuals from
openly serving in the military.
For, in a campus culture contemptuous of patriotic ardor and
saturated with overwrought human rights rhetoric, a word in praise of
military service stands proxy for anti-gay sentiment.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and Don't Pontificate
Harvard President Drew G. Faust recently used her end-of-the-year commencement address to the university's ROTC group to discuss the shamefulness of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." One Harvard Crimson writer feels that such an event is no time for political grandstanding, regardless of affiliation, and that the incident exemplifies the academic tendency towards "overwrought human rights rhetoric."
