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McCain: Columbia allows Iranian but not ROTC?
Baltimore Sun ^ | 9/24/07 | By Frank James

Posted on 09/24/2007 3:11:14 PM PDT by pinochet

"...Columbia University's belief in free speech does not extend to Reserve Officers' Training Corps units being allowed on their campus to attract outstanding young men and women to serve in the military."

(Excerpt) Read more at weblogs.baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ahamadinejad; columbia; mccain; un
Did the Republicans address the ROTC issue, when they were in control of Congress? Columbia does receive federal funds.
1 posted on 09/24/2007 3:11:17 PM PDT by pinochet
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To: pinochet

No surprise here - Bollinger is the Univ Pres plus he heads the Pulitzer Board that reaffirmed the Duranty Pulitzer -

http://www.pulitzer.org/resources/duranty.html

Note that it denies genocide.


2 posted on 09/24/2007 3:21:52 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: pinochet

[Did the Republicans address the ROTC issue, when they were in control of Congress? ]

IIRC, the pubbies pi$$ed and moaned but in their usual spineless manner, allowed it to drop!


3 posted on 09/24/2007 3:25:39 PM PDT by dbacks (I forgot to pay the rent on my tagline.)
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To: pinochet

I’m no fan of McCain, but he got this one right.


4 posted on 09/24/2007 4:06:46 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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To: pinochet
Nope. They also wussied out on Middle East Studies program (which gets federal funds) being run by Arab Nationalists and Islamists.
They only scream about pointless things like DeGenova, which are covered by free speech, not about the real rot. This is Press Release Politics.
5 posted on 09/24/2007 4:39:31 PM PDT by rmlew (Build a wall, attrit the illegals, end the anchor babies, Americanize Immigrants)
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