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ACTA research fellow Erin O'Connor notes on her blog that the Yale Daily News also editorialized in favor of ROTC today. The editorial is worth quoting at some length:
Although Yale boasts the motto "For God, For Country and For Yale," it does not, in 2008, live up to that second vow. As the YPU concluded in its debate last night, the time is right for the University to resurrect ROTC.In bringing the program back to campus, however, the University must not abandon its opposition to Congress' discriminatory policy that prevents openly gay Americans from enlisting. In fact, it should seize such a moment to reinvigorate the debate.
As it stands, Yale's strategy to combat "don't ask, don't tell" is, practically speaking, ineffective....We, like so many in the Yale community, believe "don't ask, don't tell" is wrong. The next president should call for its overhaul. But not allowing ROTC won't achieve a thing.
Trustees who are tempted to believe that opposition to "don't ask, don't tell" requires banning ROTC should heed the students' words.
Posted by Charles Mitchell on October 07, 2008 at October 7, 2008 05:15 PM
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