Maggie's Farm

Campus Update

Shame on Columbia and shame on Pres. Bollinger. Their ROTC decision is not only disappointing, but it makes no sense. Opinion Journal: In April 2003, Columbia held a student referendum on ROTC. Two-thirds voted to bring it back. This led the university senate to appoint a 10-member panel to examine the subject; it split down the middle on the question of readmitting ROTC "as soon as is practicable."

What are these people thinking? Are they stuck in the 60s?

But maybe we shouldn't be too bothered by this. Throughout America, schools such as the University of Missouri continue to graduate outstanding young men such as Lieutenant Edens. He may not have earned an Ivy League degree, but he did earn a nation's respect--which is more than most of Columbia's faculty can ever hope to get. Read entire.

But kudos to Dartmouth for their more mature decision-making. Removing politically-correct speech codes seems to be a new trend.