Columbia: WSJ Best of the Web Today

21 April 2003 Wall Street Journal Best of the Web Today "Harvard Hangups" by James Taranto. Comment: Taranto notes the 973 to 530 student vote for ROTC at Columbia and observes how times have changed.

Columbia: Spectator "High Turnout Decides CC Student Council Election"

17 April 2003 Columbia Spectator article "High Turnout Decides CC Student Council Election". Comment: Towards the end of the article is results from "a referendum asking if the University should prohibit the ROTC from having a chapter at Columbia". By a vote of 973 to 530, students favored allowing ROTC. The students do not have an official say in the decision.

Columbia: Spectator Letter to the Editor

10 April 2003 Columbia Spectator letter "ROTC Program Would be Valuable to Columbia Community" by Eric Chen. Note: This is a response to the 8 April Pulizzi column.

Columbia: Spectator "Don't Question or Doubt the ROTC"

8 April 2003 Columbia Spectator column "Don't Question or Doubt the ROTC" by James Pulizzi. Note: See response letter on 10 April.

Columbia: Spectator Letter to the Editor

8 April 2003 Columbia Spectator letter "ROTC at Ivy League Will Improve Diversity of Military" by Sean Wilkes CC '06.

Columbia: NYT "Professors Protest as Students Debate"

5 April 2003 New York Times article "Professors Protest as Students Debate". Comment: The article mentions the effort to restore ROTC at Columbia and the response to ROTC at Princeton. "When Gary J. Bass, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton, asked his class on "Causes of War" how many students were in R.O.T.C., two raised their hands. The rest applauded."

Columbia: Specttor "Military Intelligence"

3 April 2003 Columbia Spectator column "Military Intelligence" by Brian Wagner. Comment: Wagner dissects the anti-ROTC arguments made at a Columbia College forum.

Columbia: NYT "Future Soldier, Life on a Liberal Campus"

2 April 2003 New York Times article "For a Future Soldier, Life on a Liberal Campus Can Be a Battle".

Columbia: Spectator "Panel Speakers Link ROTC to War With Iraq"

1 April 2003 Columbia Spectator article "Panel Speakers Link ROTC to War With Iraq". Comment: One student argued for not having ROTC cadets on campus because, she said, members of the armed forces are trained to "evaporate dissent". Another "condemned the entire U.S. military as racist, lamenting what she called disproportionate numbers of low-income people of color serving in the military's rank-and-file". The ROTC program that serves Columbia graduated an ROTC cadet named Colin Powell, who faced no glass ceiling in his advancement in the military and beyond.