The Ivy League Makes Peace with ROTC

Universities and the military
The vote this weekend to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was greeted with notable eagerness by the presidents of Harvard and Columbia Universities, because it clears away a last barrier to healing what is, for the colleges, an enduring wound of the 1960s. Columbia President Lee Bollinger's immediate statement was particularly forceful, saying the vote "effectively ends what has been a vexing problem for Higher Education, including at Columbia -- given our desire to be open to our mi...

Columbia News
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, kicked off a year-long series of “Conversations with the Country” at Columbia’s World Leaders Forum on April 18. In his address, he emphasized both the proper strategic role of Military power in U.S. Foreign Policy and the importance of investing in the nation’s Military Veterans through Higher Education, career opportunities and support services. “This is the beginning of an effort to connect with communi...

Virginia Lawmaker To Introduce Legislation Barring Gays From National Guard
Washington Times: Responding to the federal Repeal of the Military policy banning open gays from serving in the Armed Forces, a state lawmaker in Virginia plans to fight back with Legislation that bars “active Homosexuals” from serving in the Virginia National Guard. Delegate Robert G. Marshall said the Constitution reserves states with the authority to do so and that he’ll introduce a bill in the State General Assembly next year that ensures the “the effect of the 1994...

ROTC Making a Comeback on Liberal Campuses
A number of universities that initially distanced themselves from the Military during the Vietnam Era found that full-scale participation in Military recruiting activities violated their non-discrimination policies in an era of consciousness of the claims of gay and Lesbian Students to equality under the law. With the US Congress moving to Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell those barriers should fade away. Bill Kristol somehow sees political gold for the right in this: Though ROTC was ki...

Harvard, Yale moving on 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. Harvard University President Drew Faust today signaled t...

At Long Last, Military Honor
More than 14,000 Soldiers lost their jobs and their dignity over the last 17 years because they were gay, but there will be no more Victims of this injustice. The nation’s Military is about to send a message of tolerance and shared purpose to the world — now that political leaders, who voted for legalized Bigotry in the Armed Forces in 1993 and kept it alive since then, have found the strength to stand up and end it. The Senate vote on Saturday afternoon to allow open service by gay...

U.S. students crossing the pond for college
When Adelaide Waldrop learned that she had been consigned to the wait list at each of the four universities she wanted most to attend, it was as if all the excitement had drained from her collegiate quest. Then she remembered her wild-card school: the University of St. Andrews, the medieval cobblestone campus in Scotland. Now Waldrop, of Silver Spring, is a St. Andrews sophomore, one of a growing number of American Students who enroll at top-ranked British universities, which offer the prest...

Columbia President: DADT Repeal "Effectively Ends" Our Problem with ROTC
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. 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 wanti...

A fabulous military
No one cognizant of history would think to deny that Homosexual men are capable of fighting effectively. The Sacred Band of Thebes alone would suffice to disprove that notion. However, one salient fact to consider about the Sacred Band was that it was a band, which is to say, it was a Military unit that was set apart from other Military units that did not share the particular predilection that made it such a remarkably cohesive unit. The Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which effectively permit...

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What would George (Washington) do?
Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall, R-Manassas, announced that he was drafting Legislation to bar active Homosexuals from serving in the Virginia National Guard on the same day the Senate voted to eliminate the 17-year "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Citing Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16 of the Constitution which "reserv[es] to the States respectively. the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress." Forbidding open homo...

Cheers and Jeers: Monday
From the GREAT STATE OF Maine... Yay Just some random thoughts on Saturday's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal vote, starting with today's boring correction: on November 28, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham gave Chris Wallace a pinky shake and a promise: "I don't believe there is anywhere near the votes to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. ... So I think in a Lame Duck setting Don't Ask, Don't Tell is not going anywhere." Nowhere, that is, except in the history books as a huge victory for gay civil...

On DADT, Politics, and Taxes
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Gays in the Military, ROTC back on Campus? Youthful ardor leads to arduous going. Don't sacrifice unit cohesion for a social experiment. And there's a role for Congress. The Afghan government has likely released dozens of Gitmo Detainees, and many more from Bagram, instead of trying them. Gays in the Military, ROTC back on Campus? Time to end to that Discrimination, too....

Damage to Harvard books on gay issues an accident
Cambridge, Mass. -- A Harvard University dean says damage to three dozen books on gay and Lesbian issues that appeared to have been doused in urine in a campus library was simply an accident. Campus Police were investigating the incident that occurred Nov. 24 and reported Friday as a Hate Crime. Dean Evelynn Hammonds told The Crimson Student Newspaper Monday that an investigation determined that a library worker found a bottle of what appeared to be urine on a shelf in the Lamont Library and...

Ivy League schools to reinstate military groups following repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Ivy League universities that have banned Military groups from campuses since the Vietnam War are to welcome them back after the Senate voted to end the policy excluding open Homosexuals from serving in uniform....

The disposable academic
ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a Thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral Thesis is both an idea and an account of a period of original research. Writing one is the aim of the hundreds of thousands of Students who embark on a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) every year. In most c...

Washington Week
While most Americans spent this weekend doing some last minute Christmas Shopping, the Senate spent Saturday and Sunday debating and voting on amendments to the START Treaty, the DREAM Act and the Repeal of the Defense Department's “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. When all was said and done, the Senate sent to the president the Repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” defense policy. The DREAM Act was defeated and the START treaty remains the pending b...

Victory for Liberal Social Agenda, Conservatives Say; Right Thing to Do, Military Leader Says
Monday, December 20, 2010 By Susan Jones Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, with Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., left, and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., speaks at a news conference about the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" bill during on an unusual Saturday session on Capitol Hill in Washington Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (CNSNews.com) - Calling it a “tragic day for our Armed Forces,” the conservative Family Research Council criticized the

Some of Ind.'s best-paid employees do several jobs
Some of the Highest Paid State Employees in Indiana are earning those top wages after having combined several jobs into one, a newspaper analysis shows. The Journal Gazette reported that Peggy Stephens is the Highest Paid non-university employee, collecting $243,000 as both the superintendent and medical director at Madison State Hospital. The former Harvard University faculty member is responsible for the care of more than 150 patients and supervises a dozen doctors. She was among several physi...

Job Posting: GOP Presidential Candidate
POSITION: The Republican Party of the United States of America is currently seeking to fill a vacancy for the position of 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate. PROCESS: The position has remained unfilled for the last two years, ever since its most recent occupant passed away (politically speaking). Several individuals have expressed an interest in filling the vacancy, but we’re keeping our options open until six months from now when the primary race officially begins. At that point, Fat...

War Room: It's still OK to hate Joe Lieberman
It looks very much like "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" will finally be repealed, 17 years after the discriminatory policy was enacted. And it's thanks, in very large part, to the tireless work of independent/"Connecticut for Lieberman" Sen. Joe Lieberman. Yep, Joe Lieberman, the single most annoying man in the United States Senate -- the august home, since the days of our founders, of America's most annoying citizens -- was instrumental in righting a fundamental injustice. Andrew Sullivan has anointed ...

Asking, Telling and Testing the Waters
Posted by Rich Trzupek on Dec 20th, 2010 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Is allowing gays and Lesbians to serve openly in the United States’ Military a wise decision? It appears that we’re about to find out. Civil Rights advocates hailed Saturday’s 65-31 vote to end the Clinton-era “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) polic...

John McCains Policy Temper Tantrums
An operating theory of John McCain went like this: His veer to the right in recent years was all about the politics of necessity. He needed to demonstrate his conservative bona fides to the GOP base first to overcome Mitt Romney et al in the 2008 primaries. Then more recently he had to keep burnishing his Right Wing credentials so that in a year when Bob Bennett and others were found to be insufficiently conservative McCain would be able to repel J.D. Hayworth’s siege from the right. Thi...

Britain heading for a Navy the size of Belgium's
Sir Jonathon Band, the First Sea Lord, said if that happens, he will quit in Protest at Spending Cuts. The Belgian Navy boasts three frigates and fewer than 2,500 personnel - compared with more than 40 major warships in the Royal Navy. But Britain's top admiral warned that spending cuts are reducing the nation to a third-rate sea power. He said: 'We are at a scale of operations that requires a certain amount of investment to stay at this level. 'If we drop down a scale, then we may throw the bab...

Britain to Become 3d Rate World Power?
Great Britain, who has a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, as well as being one of only a handful of nations with Nuclear Weapons, is well on its way to being a third-rate Military power. Air Vice-Marshal Greg Bagwell, commander of the RAF’s No. 1 Group, commented that drastic cuts in the British Government’s defence Budget “worry the hell out of me” and would leave the Royal Air Force only “slightly above Belgium” in squadron numbers...