Duty, Honor, Country… and Columbia: Bringing back the ROTC

15 September 2008 National Review article "Duty, Honor, Country… and Columbia: Bringing back the ROTC" by David J. Feith.  Note:  Feith, a senior at Columbia, recalled the hosting of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Columbia in 2007.  "The value of engaging with Ahmadinejad, [Columbia President Lee] Bollinger argued, outweighed the costs of sharing a prestigious podium with a murderer of gays (not to mention American troops). Maybe the experience has led Bollinger, who in 2005 voted to uphold the ROTC ban, to reconsider the costs and benefits of sharing a campus with ROTC cadets and drill instructors."