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- Why We Should All Care About DADT
- Why the Ivy League is Rethinking ROTC
- ROTC and Columbia University's discrimination policy
- Columbia Unveils War Memorial in Butler
- Dedication Speech for the Columbia War Memorial
- Nice to Know: ROTC Results Broken Down by School
- Why Columbia Should Welcome ROTC: Bad policy on ga...
- Our Fraudulent ROTC Vote
- Bringing ROTC Back to the Columbia Campus
- The ROTC on Campus
- NROTC Ends Not With a Bang, But a Whimper
- Learned Foote Argues for ROTC in the WSJ
- Ivy Leaguers in the Foxholes: ROTC back at Columbia?
- Even Obama Can't Get Columbia University To Listen
- ROTC: Wrong in 1968 and Wrong Today
- 80% of Columbia students did not vote against NROTC
- Next Step Unclear After Split Survey Results
- Why Did ROTC Get 65% Student Support in 2003 and O...
- NROTC Survey Results for CC, SEAS, GS: NROTC Loses...
- Students Roughly Split on NROTC Return
- Was the NROTC vote “fair?”
- GSSC President Calls NROTC Survey "Meaningless"
- BC's NROTC Results
- Educate Yourself, Student Government
- One Last, Mindboggling ROTC Survey Screwup: Counci...
- Between the Trenches: NROTC, Queer Identity, and t...
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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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