Could ROTC return to Yale after a 41-year ban?
Congress’s decision to repeal ” “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s policy that bans gays and lesbians from openly serving, makes it easier for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to return to campus, said James Campbell, who heads the Yale College Council ROTC Committee.
The U.S. Senate voted 65-31 Saturday to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an identical version of the bill.
Campbell, the Pierson College YCC representative, said University administrators’ major objection to ROTC was that the military bars gays and lesbians from openly participating in the program.
Yale College Council President Jeff Gordon ’12 said he supports have ROTC at Yale now that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is repealed, adding that YCC will likely take that position as well. YCC members will meet with administrators early next semester to discuss ways to bring ROTC back to Yale.
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