Ivies moving toward restoring ROTC

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Ivies moving toward restoring ROTC

Some top universities moved quickly Saturday to respond to the vote repealing the ban on gays in the military, and those who don't restore their ROTC programs in the wake of the vote are likely to face immediate pressure on the issue.

The ROTC programs have been absent from a number of Ivy League and other leading campuses since the Vietnam War, and many schools subsequently linked programs' return to open service for gays and lesbians. The vote, said Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, provides "the opportunity for a new era in the relationship between universities and our military services."

"This is an historic development for a nation dedicated to fulfilling its core principle of equal rights. It also effectively ends what has been a vexing problem for higher education, including at Columbia -- given our desire to be open to our military, but not wanting to violate our own core principle against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation," he said in a statement through a spokesman.

Harvard University President Drew Faust today signaled that she would move to restore ROTC to the campus.

"Because of today's action by the Senate, gay and lesbian Americans will now also have the right to pursue this honorable calling, and we as a nation will have the benefit of their service," she said in a statement through a spokesman. "I look forward to pursuing discussions with military officials and others to achieve Harvard's full and formal recognition of ROTC."

A spokesman for Yale University also suggested that change may be coming soon.

"We are aware of the vote and have plans in consideration," said Yale spokesman Thomas Mattia in an email.

A Stanford official declined to comment for the record but noted that the school's Faculty Senate is already reviewing the restoration of ROTC, a process that began last "in part in anticipation of the 'Don't ask Don't tell' issue," and is due to consider a report and recommendation in the next
few months.

Emails were not immediately returned today by press officers at Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, and the University of Chicago.
The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol suggested today that repeal should trigger an immediate press for reinstating ROTC on campus, a battle that has been a front in the culture wars since the 1960s.

"One trusts the presidents and trustees of colleges that have been keeping ROTC at arm's length, allegedly because of DADT, will move posthaste to ensure a hearty welcome and full equality for ROTC at their universities," he wrote, pointing to Senators who are alumni of the relevant schools. "One would expect that patriotic alumni of those universities would insist on quick action."

Some gay advocates, however, would prefer the schools wait until repeal has been fully implemented. Americablog's John Aravosis wrote that the schools should only let up "when the discharges stop and the ban is fully lifted."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...g_on_ROTC.html

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Good for Gays, Gay Organizations, Harvard (other Ivies also) & U.S. Congress all quite biased or preferentially concerned about homosexuals OPENLY serving in The American Military.

Screw reality that about 90% of Americans find such sexual orientations abnormal, obscene & offensive. Or, the historical fact that gays in military foolishly quite open about preferring same sex comrades for such,...don't often fair very well. NOT WELL at all.

So then all you light-footed types currently out there in rough & tough combat units, I would suggest you quite wisely keep your kinky sexual orientations TO YOURSELVES.

Instead of minding what your dues, tuition collectors & vote receivers panderingly babble to you,...pay attention to Admirals, Generals & rank & file of Army & Marine Combat Units before QUITE STUPIDLY flaunting your hinky sexualities. Most oathtakers in U.S. Military DO NOT LIE.

Even if despicable & sexually obscene displays or parades in NYC, Frisco & wherever please you & go off fairly well,...DO NOT even contemplate parading sexuality in U.S. Army & Marine Combat Units. Air Force, Navy & Coast Guard,...eh? I haven't got a clue.

Hell, just rub up against the wrong dude in the shower room,...and WATCH OUT Precious!!!
Not all troopers are as mild, mellow, understanding or: "Live & let live" about you gays, as I am.

Sorry. But that just how it is. I s--t you not.

Never mind what your dues collectors or Haavad tuition collectors or Officialdom vote panderers tell you Quite Differently. Pretty-much all such alluded are BSers whom thrive quite well from BS.

Some such public gay proponents actually have degrees in BS and/or Political Science.

Neil

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Now we simply MUST do something about those uniforms. Olive drab is just so, well, DRAB. Maybe something in a sunflower?

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"Sunflower" seems a good choice, 1CAV... .

That way, such won't get confused with those Macho Powder Blue UN berrets.

Still,..."Butches" might not even like either?

Maybe Pelosi should poll her Frisco Constituents?
Perhaps pastel camo might be the uniform of choice?

Neil