Advocates For Columbia ROTC: Bollinger Defends Campus ROTC Ban in Email

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Bollinger Defends Campus ROTC Ban in Email

25 September 2008 Columbia Spectator article "Bollinger Defends Campus ROTC Ban in Email". Note: Spectator quotes from President Bollinger's email to the Columbia community about the ROTC issue, which did not mention Naval ROTC specifically, and noted that "student leaders have said they want to deal specifically with NROTC because, unlike other branches of ROTC, it's not an option for Columbia students."

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is an umbrella group for organizations that promote an atmosphere supportive of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps on college campuses.

ROTC was active at all major universities in the United States until the Vietnam War, when it was de-certified by some colleges amid anti-war sentiment. Students at these colleges can take part in ROTC programs at other colleges and receive ROTC scholarships. Although much of the anti-military sentiment of the 1960s has waned, opposition to ROTC continues, centering around the "don't ask, don't tell" law about homosexuality in the armed forces passed by Congress in 1993 and signed into law by President Clinton.

ROTC is a core part of the nation's military training, producing more officers than the Service academies. At colleges without ROTC, students are growing up separated from some of the most important leaders of the future. Gen. David Petraeus, the military commander in Iraq, stresses that ROTC "is very important for our Army and our country" and that many ROTC graduates are "true national assets". President George W. Bush said "It should not be hard for our great schools of learning to find room to honor the service of men and women who are standing up to defend the freedoms that make the work of our universities possible". Both the country and the universities will benefit from having more such leaders.

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Bollinger Defends Campus ROTC Ban in Email

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