Here’s the story at NRO’s The Corner:
Despite the recent repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the drive to reinstate the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Stanford University is facing resistance.
In March 2010, the Faculty Senate appointed a committee to investigate whether to allow ROTC back on campus after an almost 40-year absence. The committee will report back in May 2011.
In the meantime, anti-ROTC groups have been making their opposition known. One group, Stanford Says No to War, created a website at the misleading domain name http://rotc.stanford.edu to air its displeasure. (Earlier this month, the university revoked the domain name to avoid further confusion.) Unsurprisingly, the anti-war group believes ROTC’s presence is antithetical to the university’s purpose. It cites Professor Cecilia Ridgeway, who once said in Reading Eagle: “Universities are about solving problems through discussion, not military approaches.”…
Well, ok. Here’s what we do – we move Stanford (buildings, professors, student body, the whole shebang) to, say, Tehran. There the wonderful people of Stanford (especially the worthies at American Indian Gays, Black and Queer at Stanford, Feminist Collective and Queer and Questioning Asians And Pacific Islanders) can go and discuss their issues with the Mullahs. I’m sure that a group of unarmed, earnest college students and professors will have no trouble at all in convincing the Iranian government, by discussion, that there is a place for Black and Queer in the Islamic Republic.
Talk about ivory tower! These fools really don’t seem to understand that they are able to sit around doing hardly anything of importance while giving themselves airs of superiority because rougher men and women are willing to carry a weapon in their defense. There probably won’t be too many ROTC types at Stanford – or any other of our elite universities – but there will be some, and simple common sense and a desire for self-preservation would get rational people behind such a such a group of people. Sadly, common sense is what is most lacking in American “higher education” these days.
Of course, we really can’t ship Stanford to Tehran. But there is something we can do – if they don’t immediately allow ROTC back on campus with full access and no problems from faculty, then we cut them off. No student loans, no grants – no nothing; not another penny of taxpayer funds. That’ll make them squeal like stuck pigs – and get them to stop being quite so stupid.
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