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...Sunday night, Undergraduate Council President David L. Hanselman '94-'95 ruled unconstitutional his own motion to donate $500 to the University's new ROTC fund. We breathed a sigh of relief that the council will not be using student's money to fund the University's most controversial program without their express permission...
...council's Student Affairs Committee, which originally endorsed the donation proposal, betrayed the council's fundamental mission--to serve students, all students. According to the council's policy, student programs seeking grants should be open to all students. Hanselman said that "since an openly gay person cannot participate in ROTC, I guess the ROTC program does discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation...
Besides the issue of discrimination, the Student Affairs Committee spurned another kind of fairness when it approved Hanselman's resolution. Most student programs have to petition the council for grants; evidently, ROTC would not. In any event, the council should have consulted its student constituents before proposing funds for ROTC...
...constitutes such a small portion of the University's ROTC contribution that we wonder why the committee bothered to form a resolution at all. The answer: Hanselman wanted to help ROTC participants who "are like second-class citizens on campus...
Hold on a second. ROTC students receive exactly the same services as other students; ROTC is an additional opportunity that the University is not required to provide...