More than 50 people attended a town hall meeting at Stanford on Tuesday night to debate the possible return of ROTC to campus, the largest such gathering since the Faculty Senate opened the question last spring.
Members of the Senate’s ad hoc committee investigating the matter, ROTC cadets and other student-group representatives attended the event, which ASSU helped organize.
Sam Windley, a law student and president of Stanford Says to No War, opened discussion by presenting the group’s two main arguments against the return of the military program to Stanford: that ROTC defies the right to free academic exploration and that the program violates Stanford’s anti-discrimination policy.
Some students and committee members saw the recently repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy as contrary to Stanford’s principles and considered it a barrier to the program’s return. Now, some students argue ROTC on campus would still violate Stanford’s nondiscrimination policy by prohibiting transgender students from participating.
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