Reply #10: Colleges getting into the act [View All]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucethic/20051003/cm_ucethic/donorsecrecy

Our master's degree program in public policy requires students to devise solutions to a real-life policy problem -- this year, the crisis in military recruitment and retention. The best paper will be forwarded to the Department of Defense. We students oppose the war in Iraq and the military's rejection of gay recruits, and see each as a cause of the recruitment problem. Is it ethical to require us to participate in an exercise aimed at assisting an institution whose policies we morally oppose? -- Heather Valdez Singleton, Alexa Kasdan, Cambridge, Mass.

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UPDATE: Singleton and Kasdan completed the assignment, emphasizing reforms including those described above. The school did send what it considered to be the best solution to the problem -- not theirs -- to the D.O.D., with the consent of its authors.