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- A High Achiever Poised to Scale New Heights
- NROTC and Columbia U
- The Fight For ROTC
- Hope for Columbia's ROTC
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- Survey polls Columbia students on support for ROTC
- Response to ROTC Posters
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- Discrimination Debate
- Faculty Hypocrites Against ROTC
- ROTC Survey In Your Inbox Now
- Vote No on Columbia's ROTC Survey
- Columbia Faculty Opposing ROTC
- Professors Sign Petition Against NROTC on Campus
- Vets, Cadets Weigh in on NROTC Debate
- The Origin of the NROTC Professor Statement of Sup...
- NROTC Forum: Prepare for the Survey
- In Anticipation of Campus Survey, Panelists Debate...
- The Right Kind of Conversation
- Faculty in Support of ROTC
- Prof Club Backs NROTC
- Yes on NROTC
- Tonight's NROTC Forum - Now With a Format!
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- ROTC Survey to Open Nov. 24
- Why ROTC Should Return to Columbia
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- NROTC Forum Previews Survey Opinion
- From Murky Talks to Dialogue
- Today in ROTC-Related News: What Were They Thinking?
- Brace for Impact! What's Ahead for the NROTC Debate
- Questions and Answers About NROTC
- Obama Needs a Strong Foreign Policy
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Advocates for ROTC
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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