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May 17, 2007
Bush Assails Colleges That Shun ROTC Units
President Bush took the opportunity during an ROTC-commissioning ceremony at the White House this afternoon to criticize colleges and universities that “do not allow ROTC on campus,” according to an official transcript.
In an applause line, Mr. Bush said, “To the cadets and midshipmen who are graduating from a college or university that believes ROTC is not worthy of a place on campus, here is my message: Your university may not honor your military service, but the United States of America does.” He did not single out any college by name, although there are quite a few of them.
Mr. Bush also didn’t mention the Pentagon’s role in pulling ROTC out of many campuses. As The Wall Street Journal reported in February, the Defense Department has shut down dozens of ROTC units where it saw poor prospects of finding good recruits. Some campuses were seen as havens of antimilitary sentiment; others simply didn’t fit into the Pentagon’s post-cold-war calculus. (See Chronicle articles from 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, and 2004.)
But many of them, the Journal reported, were in big, ethnically diverse Northern cities that had sizable populations of Arabic or Pashto speakers — key languages nowadays. —Andrew Mytelka
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The Journal Article is quite accurate, and I agree with its assessment. However that doesn’t negate the fact that high-power schools such as Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford (all three represented at the White House Commissioning Ceremony) forced the programs off of their campuses and continue to ban them today.
— IvyLeagueGrunt May 17, 09:53 PM #
It is interesting, to say the least, that the President ended up in another photo opportunity with uniformed personnel in the background, and then used their commissioning ceremony to make a political point. It’s no secret that in the cultural schism in our country, conservatives will claim the military as their own, while blasting the liberal bastions of academia—so the President’s comments must be seen in that context. No mention, of course, that he could bridge that chasm by allowing gays to serve openly in the military, an overdue move that would obviate the major universities’ most strenuous objection to supporting ROTC.
— Respectful Dissent May 18, 01:10 AM #
As I remember ROTC programs, they were not just programs to recruit officer candidates for OCS. They were academic programs in their own right. And just like any other academic program, it should be up to the university or college whether or not the taught content of that program fits with the rest of the curriculum.
— Charles Jannuzi May 20, 02:09 AM #
As a active duty military officer and current Columbia student I can say for a fact that the problem is both in the military and on traditionally liberal campuses. Military officers tend to have similar prejudices about the universities in question that the vast majority of community members at these universities have about the military. What both fail to understand is that both the traditionally liberal schools and the military stand to benefit from the development of a closer and fuller relationship.
— Huckelberry Finne May 22, 12:49 PM #