From an article by Dan Sullivan....
"Since Vietnam, Ivory Tower disdain for the military and national-security agencies has been a fact of life on many campuses. In some cases, it is official policy.
When I attended Harvard in the late 1980s, the Spartacus Youth League, an organization for young communists, was welcome on campus. But the Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC was not.
My roommate, who was attending college on an Air Force scholarship, had to ride the subway to MIT twice a week for his training. Fair Harvard, our nation’s oldest, most prestigious university, did not allow America’s future military leaders to train on its soil.
Incredibly, this ban, which was first implemented in 1969, continues today. The rationale has morphed from the military’s involvement in Vietnam to the current “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Military recruiters are banned, too, from entering Harvard Yard. The alma mater of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes even prohibits fliers—one of the most basic forms of free speech—promoting military service from being posted on campus. "