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Has anybody checked to see if ROTC programs are approved at the Universities?

The ROTC program at my private school was cut in 1991 for cost cutting measures and cadets had to go across town.

I suspect the same is the case with at least some of these schools.

I’m still waiting for the Clinton “middle class tax cut”; campaign promises mean nothing coming from the Dems.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

Lestat, ROTC isn’t the full story.  I know for a fact that Yale and Harvard currently prohibit military recruiters on campus at events like job fairs, etc.

I also know that Columbia banned them in the past, though just recently agreed to allow them on campus.  Though Columbia still doesn’t recognize the ROTC.

So, clearly, there are some colleges here getting big-time taxpayer dollars while not complying with the Solomon Act.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Lestat, ROTC isn’t the full story.

Can you tell me what part of the Solomon Act refers to military recruitment and not ROTC?

They do some of that science stuff.

why in the world are we giving them hundreds of millions of our tax dollars?

Im not a Yank but I thought that ROTC press release was interesting, timely and reasonable and it related to a fantastic article I read a while ago called “On Forgetting the obvious” by Robert Kaplan.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/ai2/article.cfm?Id=289

Personally, and as an academic myself, I think many people employed at unis these days are gutless pretentious wankers who havent got two brain cells to rub together.. but i should let you read the article above since Kaplan (vicariously) describes the moral confusion, the outright treason and the fictitious intelligence of tenured academics so much better than I ever could.

In Australia, gutless hypocritical people with trendy causes they dont quite understand are quite common too and sadly many work at uni.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23086457-7583,00.html

[I apologise if having an alias makes me a troll too, i would just like to keep my name from my dear colleagues who lurk so sweetly in the background.]

Should you not wish to read all of Kaplan’s article, the relevant section is headed “dividing” eg..

“Liberal democratic societies have commonly been defended by conservative military establishments whose members may lack the social graces of the cosmopolitan classes they protect. Such a conservative American military now has a particularly thankless task, however. Much of what it does abroad is guarding sea lanes and training troops of fledgling democracies, helping essentially to provide the security armature for an emerging global civilization. But the more that civilization evolves—with its own mass media, non-governmental organizations and professional class—the less credit and sympathy it grants to the American troops who at times risk their lives for it. Irony is stock-and-trade for sophisticated wit, of course. But it cannot forever obscure the contradiction between the functions of an effective warrior class and the unwillingness of those functions’ beneficiaries to support its warriors.”

Should you not wish to read all of Kaplan’s article, the relevant section is headed “dividing” eg..

“Liberal democratic societies have commonly been defended by conservative military establishments whose members may lack the social graces of the cosmopolitan classes they protect. Such a conservative American military now has a particularly thankless task, however. Much of what it does abroad is guarding sea lanes and training troops of fledgling democracies, helping essentially to provide the security armature for an emerging global civilization. But the more that civilization evolves—with its own mass media, non-governmental organizations and professional class—the less credit and sympathy it grants to the American troops who at times risk their lives for it. Irony is stock-and-trade for sophisticated wit, of course. But it cannot forever obscure the contradiction between the functions of an effective warrior class and the unwillingness of those functions’ beneficiaries to support its warriors.”

There’s a bit of support.
Defense Budget $696 Billion.

WOOF:

There’s a bit of support.  Defense Budget $696 Billion

Yep.  And a fair amount of it goes to the schools in question.

Let them forgot defense contracts if they don’t want to support the military.  Sounds eminently rational to me.

What a pack of lies.  All three of them. 

Their constituents are the ones who are violating the Solomon Act; haven’t heard a word of objection by any of the three against these schools, have you?

Challenge:  someone find me a public statement or written policy statement in the last four years about this issue by one of these three hacks.

PS Edwards:  “it’s nawt enuff to towk abaowt it, Tem...” God, I can’t wait for this phony pos to cash out.

Can somebody tell me how Harvard is violating the Solomon Act since they lost their Supreme Court case?