Lee C. Bollinger, President, Mail: 202 Low Library, Mail Code: 4309, Phone: 212-854-9970, UNI: lcb50, E-mail: bollinger@columbia.edu
Posted on 04/14/2005 7:03:42 AM PDT by pabianice
April 14, 2005 -- COLUMBIA University, only a few miles north of Ground Zero, treats young people who are training to defend this nation as second-class citizens. You might think that, at a university where virtually every student and faculty member was directly affected by 9/11, there'd be respect and gratitude for ROTC. Reserve Officer Training Corps students, after all, seek to serve and protect their country and their community. Instead, President Lee Bollinger (who's also under fire over alleged anti-Semitism in his Mideast Studies Department) has said he allows ROTC recruiters at the Law School only "with regret," and ROTC itself is banned on the Columbia campus.
Fortunately, a few courageous Columbia students are willing to face not only the threats of our enemies around the world but also the venom of the Columbia administration. Sean Wilkes, a neuroscience student at Columbia, does his ROTC duties at Fordham. Wilkes, a junior, wants to continue his family's military tradition — so every Friday morning he travels south to Fordham's Manhattan campus for ROTC classes, then turns around and travels north to Fordham's Bronx campus for ROTC "leadership labs" in the afternoon. Three times a week, he arrives for physical training at 6:30 a.m. in Central Park or at a Fordham campus. "I have a strong desire to serve. I think the military is a noble profession," he told me. "Seeing your neighbor free and protecting the people around you" is why he joined.
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Lee C. Bollinger, President, Mail: 202 Low Library, Mail Code: 4309, Phone: 212-854-9970, UNI: lcb50, E-mail: bollinger@columbia.edu
It would be interesting to delve into the family background of Mr. Bollinger to find the last time anybody in his family served in uniform.
The more the liberal boutique elitist re-education camps are outed for what they are - the more parents won't want to spend $30,000 a year to mis-educate their chilluns'.
Interesting stance from a University which has a branch location on almost every major U.S. military facility around the world, and from which a huge part of their annual revenue comes directly from Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines.
Sorry,Mr.Bollinger but it's you who should be"BANNED"!!!!!
Sorry, was thinking about a different school.
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