US military struggles in campus battle
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NEW YORK — US soldiers today face combat in some far-flung places, but it’s the battle for Columbia University, right in Manhattan, that could say most about the country they represent.
At issue is whether the prestigious college will end a ban on a military cadet program known as the ROTC that was exiled from most Ivy League campuses four decades ago during the Vietnam era.
The college Senate meets this Friday ahead of a vote next month that will provide a stark look at how US academia — long a foe of the Pentagon — feels nearly a decade into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
For Zoe Willmott, in her junior year of urban studies, the idea of a great university partnering the military is anathema. “In the military you are taught to obey commands, to follow commands, not to think critically and to question what you’re doing,” Willmott, 20, said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110306com3.html
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