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What a Weekend With the ROTC Taught Me About the Military

Jake Williams | Posted 02.05.2013 | College
Jake Williams

I traveled with IUP's ROTC to Camp Dawson to act as a journalist embedded into a military unit. Four of my staff members and I ate with the cadets, slept in the same barracks as the cadets and, in some cases, attempted to participate in the same activities.

On Veteran's Day, I Remember Being a Military Wife

Lea Lane | Posted 01.11.2013 | Women
Lea Lane

Night after night, the television screen would show horrible skirmishes, bombings, killings and mayhem. I would never know if my husband was safe until the next day passed and I had heard nothing.

Sharing The Stories Of LGBT Youth: Magda, 17, From Brooklyn, N.Y.

Diana Scholl | Posted 06.05.2012 | Gay Voices
Diana Scholl

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School Breakfast Economics Add Up

Ed News Colorado | Rebecca Jones | Posted 01.10.2012 | Home

Members of the Adams City High School Student Council earned $200 to help defray Homecoming expenses last fall, and they did it during school hours wi...

Controversial Program Returns To Ivy League Schools

AP | By MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 12.23.2011 | College

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Yale sophomore Andrew Hendricks has gotten used to receiving strange looks when he crosses the Ivy League campus in his Air Force ...

Contempt of the Corps at Brown University

Anthony Amore | Posted 12.18.2011 | Politics
Anthony Amore

This week, Brown University president Ruth Simmons announced that her campus would continue its policy of excluding the Reserve Officers' Training Cor...

Soldier Mom Surprises Daughter At School

AP | By ANNIE McCALLUM BITTER | Posted 11.27.2011 | Home

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama National Guard Master Sgt. Catina Hyatt has been deployed in Afghanistan for months, but she got back this week just in ti...

Lightning Strikes ROTC Base

AP | Posted 08.09.2011 | College

CAMP SHELBY, Miss. — A spokeswoman for a Mississippi military base says no one was injured when lightning hit a power pole near tents for Air Fo...

What's The Rush? Columbia President Bollinger Signs New Agreement With the Navy

Katherine Franke | Posted 08.02.2011 | College
Katherine Franke

Columbia should have waited to enter into a new agreement with the Navy until after DADT had been fully repealed.

Yale Announces Return Of ROTC

AP | BY JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 07.26.2011 | College

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University has agreed to bring back the ROTC for the first time in decades after Congress voted to allow gays to serve o...

Indispensable or Inappropriate?

David Isenberg | Posted 07.15.2011 | Business
David Isenberg

Private military and security contractors are the military's equivalent of the American Express card: it cannot go to war without them. Of course, as anyone who has ever used one knows, every credit card is a problem if you use it too much.

Historic Photos From Kent State University Shootings

The Huffington Post | Tim Stenovec | Posted 07.04.2011 | College

May 4 is the 41st anniversary of the shootings at Kent State University, an event that many argue brought the Vietnam War to American soil. Troops ...

Return of ROTC to Columbia University? An Issue Much Larger Than 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Katherine Franke | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Katherine Franke

The repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" does not, alone, justify the suspension of Columbia's objections to the on-campus integration of civilian and military education.

After Harvard, Other Schools Weigh ROTC's Return

AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

BOSTON — Harvard University officially welcomed the ROTC back Friday as other elite campuses considered whether to lift their decades-old bans n...

ROTC on Campus Is a Good Thing

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Lorelei Kelly

I predict that ROTC on campus will lead to more and better understanding of what is at stake at our current political crossroads where the only people who may unabashedly talk about serving the public are wearing uniforms.

Mayor Bloomberg Urges Columbia to Bring Back ROTC

| Jill Colvin | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

MANHATTAN -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on Columbia University to reinstate its ROTC program after a 42-year absence on campus. Columbia, like ot...

ROTC and "The Prime Rib of America"

Ryan McDermott | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Ryan McDermott

If "Equality is the Prime Rib of America," as Lady Gaga declared last Fall, then shouldn't we honor those who sacrifice for those values?

ROTC at Columbia University: Regarding the Heckling of a Veteran

Marco Reininger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Marco Reininger

Veterans play a special role. In a time when the American public is losing trust in our country's institutions, veterans represent a level of loyalty and integrity they don't find in other parts of our society.

Wounded War Vet Heckled At Columbia

Posted 05.25.2011 | College

A wounded Iraq war veteran and Columbia University freshman was jeered during a meeting about bringing ROTC back to the school, the New York Post repo...

The ROTC Controversy: DADT Is Repealed, but Discrimination Remains

Noah Baron | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Noah Baron

When I first heard of the repeal I was thrilled. It was with deep sadness that I discovered that our nation's armed forces continue to discriminate against transgender individuals as well.

Rice Announces Support For ROTC

Stanford Daily | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Professor Condoleezza Rice recently announced her support for the "full reinstatement" of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at Stanford....

Obama's New Ideas

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

Obama proposed a number of ideas last night, amongst the continuation of themes or policies he has pushed previously. The following are the proposals that stuck out as being truly new ideas for him, and thus worth examining.

ROTC, WikiLeaks, and Academic Freedom

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Stephen Zunes

If we can prohibit ROTC cadets from reading material from WikiLeaks, what would stop us from prohibiting students from, for example, reading material critical of U.S. military actions in Iraq or Vietnam?

ROTC Cadets: A Day In The Life

Daily 49er | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Jennifer Do and her group had been hiking for almost five hours since noon. Heavy rain from days before left the ground mudd...

Colleges Reconsider ROTC After DADT Repeal

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Three days a week, Yale sophomore James Campbell rises at 5 a.m. for ROTC drills on a college campus that isn't his own. He would gladly do push-ups ...