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Harvard Reinstates ROTC After 41 Years The DailyMonday, MarchFree 7, 2011 Press Year xli. Volume lxxxi. Issue xxvii. www.dailyfreepress.com [ The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University ] Campus & City Sports Opinion Weather Peace in the Middle East: Dog eat dog world: O’Donnell: I don’t heart Today: Rain, High 44 Political writer, journalist says US W. hockey takes Huckabee’s view of Tonight: Cloudy, Low 23 foreign policy hurts democracy on Northeastern Tomorrow: 44/27 page 3 page 8 single mothers page 6 Data Courtesy of weather.com Israeli, Palestinian supporters rally at Marsh Plaza Harvard By Chris Gambon and Suzanne Schiavone Daily Free Press Staff Just a few feet separated the competing reinstates demonstrations on Marsh Plaza, but for the ri- val groups that crowded in the shadow of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statute, their ROTC after differing messages of peace and human rights might as well have been a world apart. Hundreds of Boston University students, 41 years representing either BU Students for Israel or By Chelsea Diana Students for Justice in Palestine, chanted and Daily Free Press Staff waved flags in the cold wind for more than two hours Thursday afternoon. Harvard University signed an agreement The demonstrations, though peaceful, were with the U.S. Navy to officially recognize the often tense, with members of both groups paus- Reserve Officers Training Corps on Friday, two ing at some points to debate the opposition right months after Congress passed legislation allow- on the brick sidewalk adjacent to the plaza. ing gays to serve openly in the military. BU Police Department officers stood on the The agreement settled the differences be- curb of Commonwealth Avenue just in front of tween Harvard and the United States’ military, the rallies, interrupting every so often to inter- stemming from problems beginning with the vene in debates that got too testy. Vietnam War, after 41 years of no official recog- Students representing SJP held up large MICHAEL CUMMO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF nition of the program by Harvard. Members of Boston University’s Students for Justice in Palestine display a pieces of gray Styrofoam, which members said “The decision by Harvard University to styrofoam wall in Marsh Plaza on Thursday to protest Israels construction of a represented the “apartheid wall” bordering Pal- formally welcome the Naval Reserve Officer wall around the West Bank and Gaza Strip. estinian occupied territory. Training Corps to its campus is an important Text scrawled on the walls had slogans such holding Israeli flags, singing songs such as these hostilities.” step in moving past the old divisions that of- as “tear down the wall, free Gaza” and “we “One Day” by musician Matisyahu and having Before the rallies officially began at about 2 ten kept many Americans from seeing what we want justice, we want peace in Gaza.” a moment of silence for peace in Israel. p.m., BUPD officers were heard asking mem- share with one another, including love of coun- Second-year College of Arts and Sciences College of Arts and Sciences junior and bers of SJP to move further back into Marsh try and a profound respect for our brave men and Ph.D student and SJP member Ian Chinich said President of BUSI Rachelle Rubin addressed Plaza, so as not to obstruct pedestrians travel- women in uniform,” Harvard officials said in a the group was looking to draw student attention about 100 BUSI supporters, stressing the im- ling down the sidewalk. SJP complied, and the press release. to the conflict between Israel and Palestine as portance of peaceful and respectful demonstra- rally went on peacefully. Encouraged by President Barack Obama’s part of Israel Apartheid Week. tion. Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore, who at- urge for college campuses to open their doors “We just want people to know and to under- “Today we gather respectfully here at BU to tended the rallies, said he was impressed with to the military after “don’t ask don’t tell” was stand,” Chinich said. “Most Americans never promote the virtues of truth and tolerance,” Ru- the way that the two student groups were able repealed in his State of the Union address, Har- have to experience living under occupation.” bin said. “Sadly these values have been over- vard reinstated the ROTC, according to a March Meanwhile, members and supporters of looked in the past. We are asking to put aside RALLY, see page 2 4 press release. BUSI gathered further back in Marsh Plaza, However, U.S. Navy Captain Paul E. Mawn (Ret.) said that it was mainly reinstated due to Protesters rally for labor equality, peace in honor of Women’s Day politics. “It was unrecognized because of anti-mili- By Gina Curreri Every billion dollars spent on the military resident. tary perspective from people against the war in Daily Free Press Staff could create substantially more jobs within the “Housing for persons with disabilities, they Vietnam and was thrown off a lot of campuses, U.S. economy if it was spent on clean energy, can live on the street, 70 percent cut,” Gallagher but people here still participated,” Mawn, a Members of Greater Boston Code Pink ral- health care or education, Fuller said in the let- said, referring to the Section 811 proposed pro- 1963 graduate of Harvard and Chairman of the lied in front of the Massachusetts State House ter, quoting a study conducted by the Political gram cuts. “Where are our people supposed to Advocates for Harvard ROTC, said in a phone on Saturday to celebrate the 100th anniversary Economy Research Institute at the University of live?” interview. of International Women’s Day, which on Tues- Massachusetts-Amherst. Minister Lara Hoke , a member of Veterans “Harvard said they didn’t officially recog- day. The people who attended the rally said they for Peace, which co-sponsored the rally, spoke nize the ROTC by using the excuse that they About 150 people gathered in Beacon Hill were there to protest the Title X Family Plan- out against war funding. wouldn’t allow discrimination from ‘don’t ask chanting “bring our war dollars home,” while ning Program cut, the Evidence-Based Teen “At some point, as much as it was engrained don’t tell,’ but the decision had been made de- waving pink parasols. Pregnancy Initiative cut, the Section 811 pro- in me not to speak out in public against war, you cades before that was implemented,” Mawn The rally centered around labor, equality and posed program cuts and more for the 2011 fiscal reach the point where sparing feelings isn’t as said. “When the Democratic Congress took peace, said Ridgely Fuller, a Code Pink volun- year. important as sparing lives,” said Hoke, an An- away the one shield a bunch of schools hid be- teer from Waltham. “Dig this, they wanna [sic] cut family plan- dover resident. hind, Harvard had to allow ROTC to operate.” Fuller read a letter, written and signed by ning, Title X, a hundred percent, and teen preg- “The people who are going to be hurt the Harvard students who still wished to par- Code Pink members, that urged Gov. Deval Pat- nancy prevention grants cut entirely,” said Trish rick to cut military spending. Gallagher, a Code Pink member and Dorchester PROTEST, see page 4 ROTC, see page 2 YouTube stars perform at Metcalf, display growing trend of Asian-American viral celebrities By Emily Saka Asian-American community,” said Philip Wang, Daily Free Press Staff who co-founded for the independent production company, Wong Fu Productions. “I think we all As the Boston University Chinese Students realized that if we’re not helping each other, no Association held the 2011 Take Out Goodwill one’s really going to get anywhere.” Benefit Concert on Friday, many emerging Wang said many Asian-American enter- Asian-American student performers who have tainers that have been helped tremendously by gained prominence through YouTube, brought YouTube. Wong Fu began making videos in their talents to Metcalf Hall. 2003 and moved to YouTube after its creation in The singers, songwriters and video produc- 2005. Wong Fu’s YouTube account has the 75th ers performed for an audience of 1,100 students, most subscriptions on the site. and raised money for Goodwill Massachusetts, “We just try to produce quality work,” said a nonprofit organization that aims to reduce pov- Ted Fu, who also works for Wong Fu produc- erty by enhancing opportunity. tions. “Then we’re grateful for the people that “We want to redefine culture in the 21st let us.” century,” said CSA president JR Wu Chang, a Southern Californian singer and songwriter School of Management senior. “By organizing Joseph Vincent, said he had just watched his a concert of this size, the Chinese Students As- cover of Iyaz’s “Replay” hit a million views sociation has created a platform that we hope when he was asked to appear on Ellen DeGe- everyone can use to achieve whatever they are neres’ “Wonderful Web of Wonderment” spe- passionate about.” cial. Many of the evening’s performers said they Vincent praised his fellow performers and found success through YouTube and are still swiftly dismissed any notion that there is com- JUNHEE CHUNG / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF getting used to their newfound popularity. YouTube stars from Magnetic North perform at the “Takeout: Goodwill Benefit “This is a time that’s very special for the YOUTUBE, see page 4 Concert” at Metcalf Hall Friday night. 2 MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011 Harvard ROTC would use MIT facility Elmore: ‘Thank God that students are engaged ROTC: From Page 1 changes. “Most of the students are apa- on issues that they find important to themselves’ ticipate in the ROTC program could thetic,” he said.
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