Other Schools Are Also Giving An Ultimatum To the Military

With a deadline for a decision quickly approaching, Harvard will reach a crucial moment this spring with regards to the status of ROTC on campus.

At the same time, other schools are also facing the same issue and giving the military an ultimatum: change the discriminatory policy or be cut off completely.

Dartmouth, Amherst College and the University of Rhode Island are among the colleges that have issued ultimatums.

Dartmouth trustees made the decision last summer, setting April 1993 as a deadline for change, according to Alex Huppe, the news director.

Officials at MIT also have opposed the military ban on gays and lesbians. A resolution passed two years ago calls for the appointment of a committee in 1995 to evaluate the progress that this program has made. If progress is considered inadequate, ROTC will be made unavailable to students beginning with the class entering in 1998, says Robert C. DiIorio of the MIT news office.

Princeton has taken less of a firm stand. The student government last year voted to open discussion on the issue of whether to support ROTC, but no policy changes have been made yet.