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More from the campaign trail: Both Obama and McCain back ROTC
Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama voiced their support for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program during a forum at Columbia University yesterday. Columbia is one of several institutions, including fellow Ivies Harvard and Yale, who have barred the military training program on their campuses -- a move that Democratic candidate Obama called a "mistake." And judging by the 2005 student referendum at Columbia overwhelmingly supporting ROTC, there are a number of students who would agree with him. It's time that trustees, administrators, and faculty followed suit.
ACTA has been an outspoken critic of the decisions of many universities to bar ROTC and military recruiting from their campuses -- even as quite a few of them readily accept large sums of taxpayer dollars in the form of grants and contracts from the Department of Defense. In our recent publication E Pluribus Unum, which we sent to all presidential candidates, ACTA highlighted the importance of programs such as ROTC for students seeking to serve their country. We wholeheartedly applaud McCain and Obama for their willingness to speak up in favor of students' opportunity to pursue ROTC training at their universities.
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak on September 12, 2008 at September 12, 2008 01:43 PM
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