ROTC access

Bill coming down the pike from Congress, sitting in Senate Armed Services
Committee, forcing colleges and universities to allow recruiters equal access to
students, like any other private employer.

Kids, get your photo of the influential leader of the House Armed Services
Committee, Rep. Duncan Hunter!

http://armedservices.house.gov/welcome/index.html 
(Make sure you 'Click here for a high-resolution photo!')

Quote:
' First, we will provide the President the resources he needs to win the
nation's wars. '

(Did we ever formally declare war against Afghanistan or Iraq?)




H.R. 3966 (Passed House March 30, 2004)

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

      Congress makes the following findings:

            (1) The Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program is the most
common path for undergraduates to become United States military officers.

            (2) The inclusion of both public and private undergraduate
institutions in the ROTC program insures a more racially, ethnically, and
socially diverse pool for leadership in the higher ranks of the Armed Forces.

            (3) The majority of both minority officers and female officers in
the Armed Forces are acquired through undergraduate ROTC programs.

            (4) The presence of ROTC programs on college campuses benefits even
those students who are not enrolled by making them aware of the presence and
role of the United States military.

            (5) Land-grant colleges received land from the United States on the
condition that they offer some military instruction in addition to their regular
curriculum, forming the basis for the Nation's tradition of college and
university acceptance of responsibility to contribute to the Nation's readiness.

            (6) The Armed Forces face a constant challenge in recruiting
top-quality personnel that ROTC programs are ideally suited to meet.

            (7) Military recruiters should have access to college campuses and
to college students equal in quality and scope to that provided all other employers.

            (8) If any college or university discriminates against ROTC programs
or military recruiters, then under current law that college or university
becomes ineligible for certain Federal taxpayer support, especially funding for
many military and defense programs.

            (9) The personnel and programs of the Department of Homeland
Security and the Department of Energy are mutually dependent upon a high caliber
of well-educated, professional leadership in the Armed Forces in order to
protect the people and territory of the United States.

            (10) In order to more fully promote the ability of the Nation's
Armed Forces to recruit on college campuses and to facilitate the ability of
students to participate in ROTC programs on campus, the laws to prevent
discrimination against ROTC and military recruiters should be updated.



This bill amends subsections of section 983 of title 10, United States Code:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/983.html

It expands the penalties to include the repeal of funds provided by the CIA and
the Dept. of Homeland Security.  It should be noted that it does not bar funds
given to schools for individual student aid. 

It is up to the Secretary of Defense to determine if the school has violated the
equal access rights of a recruiter.  An eventual crackdown on students and
faculty who protest recruiters?  Maybe.  Research schools make money off of the
grants faculty and researchers bring in, so if Rumsfeld makes an example out of
a few schools,[UVM president] Dan Fogel  might shuck some of his southern charm.

-x
--
"Chuck full of northern charm"


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