Columbia College Dean Michele Moody-Adams said that she came to Tuesday night’s ROTC debate wearing three different hats—those of Columbia administrator, moral philosopher, and former advocate for ROTC at Cornell University.
But the dean’s metaphor, from her opening address to a town hall focused on the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presence on campus, did little to join a room entrenched in two distinct camps.
The town hall was the second in a series of three sponsored by the University Senate’s task force on military engagement, which aims to gauge student opinion on the potential return of an on-campus ROTC program.
In her opening address, Moody-Adams said that with the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”—a federal policy that prohibited gays from serving openly in the military—the country is in a new era, and Columbia should consider finding an official place for ROTC on campus.
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