Harvard ROTC Round-Up

The return of ROTC to Harvard might be (as the Politico’s Mike Allen notes) “the most underplayed story.” At the Washington Post’s website, the news has been relegated to a mere blog post, while the New York Times webpage is giving better play to a story about James Franco’s studies at Yale. (In the dead-tree version, an article about $800 truffles made the front page, but not Harvard ROTC.)

In fairness, there’s a lot of news right now, and there will likely be more coverage this afternoon when Harvard president Drew Faust and Navy secretary Ray Mabus sign the official agreement. The round-up thus far: