ROTC Coverage Added Recently

• 9 March 2010 San Francisco Chronicle article "Stanford considers bringing ROTC back".  Note:  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Kennedy, in presenting to the Faculty Senate, warned that by banning ROTC at elite colleges "we are in danger of seriously compromising a 200-year-old tradition in this society of the citizen soldier ... In 2008, the 307 general officers in the United States Army ... had 180 of their children in the service" but by contrast, the 535 members of Congress had only 10 children serving in the military.
• 4 March 2010 Stanford Review blog item "Faculty Senate Launches ROTC Exploration".  Note:  The faculty senate voted overwhelmingly to form an ad-hoc committee to "investigate Stanford’s role in preparing students for leadership in the military including potential relations with ROTC".  Proponents argued that the issues of the 1960s were solvable, and reform of "Don't ask, don't tell" would remove the last major stumbling block to closer relations between Stanfard and the military.
• 4 March 2010 Stanford Review blog item "Preview: Faculty Senate takes on ROTC".  Note:  In advance of a faculty senate meeting discussing ROTC, economics professor John Taylor describes why closer relations between Stanford and the military would be good for both.
• 3 March 2009 Stanford University News article "Faculty Senate to meet on Thursday: The senate will hear reports on ROTC at Stanford...".  Note: The Stanford news office provides some historical background to ROTC at Stanford.
• 1 March 2010 Boston Herald article "Harvard may end 40-year ROTC ban: Don’t-ask-don’t-tell rule a key obstacle".  Note:  Some predicted that ROTC would return to Harvard if Congress repeals DADT, but others said the issue was more complicated, and expected "full official recognition of ROTC", not necessarily splitting of he Harvard students away from the three service ROTC programs at MIT.
• 26 February 2010 Yale Daily News article "ROTC after Yale: A year of midterms".  Note:  In pilot training after Yale, Benji Hulburt ’08 observed “One way Yale might have prepared me better is the study habits... Here I have to study constantly.”  Yale’s ROTC adviser, Jerry Hill said that he was optimistic about reform of the "Don't ask, don't tell" law, and if ROTC returned to Yale, the first initiative Yale must take is to give cadets course credits for their training.
• 25 February 2010 Secure Nation blog post "A Centrist Approach to Reforming Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" by Michael Segal.  Note:  "Taking the incremental approach to gays in the military may seem like a go-slow approach, but in practice it is likely to be the fastest and most trouble-free way to begin opening up units to gays. In contrast, under the plans of either the left or the right, no units would be opened this year."
• 25 February 2010 GW Hatchet article "ROTC students petition for credits".  Note:  Students in Army ROTC at George Washington University are lobbying the University to receive full credit for their ROTC classes, but the University is still determining if the coursework merits an increase from the current partial credit.  Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald Lehman, who was in the Air Force ROTC, said that the courses need to be academically rigorous enough to receive full credit, and time spent in training and drills does not count as academic work.
• 19 February 2010 Harvard Crimson column "ROTC? ROFL! Antipathy for the military infiltrates the faculty" by Brian J. Bolduc '10.  Note:  Bolduc suggests that Harvard "seems headed toward recognition" of ROTC if the "Don't ask, don't tell" law is changed, despite some faculty whom Paul E. Mawn ’63, chairman of Advocates for Harvard ROTC, describes as “remnants of what I would call the Woodstock generation. These people supported the Vietcong. They view themselves as veterans of the anti-war movement.”
• 17 February 2010 Columbia Spectator column "On the front lines of prejudice: In reality, the military is merely the means through which the political and cultural climate at home displays itself" by Derek Turner.  Note:  Turner says that one benefit of restoring ROTC at Columbia would be to allow the military a local voice "so that we can engage it in discussion... having ROTC on campus would open the door to having a new group of students at Columbia who could contribute a meaningful voice to campus."

Older material added recently:

• September/October 2009 Columbia College Today article "Meet the New Dean".  Note:  Incoming Columbia College dean Michele Moody-Adams, when listing her achievements as vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell, cited helping ROTC students feel part of the community, and stressed the value of the ROTC students being "exposed to a diversity of opinions in the community".