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UCSB Attempts to Ban Recruiters
News A recent trend in universities is to start a ban against military recruiters on campus because their "don't ask, don't tell" policy conflicts with the university's antidiscrimination policy. The opinion of myself and others, of course, is that UCSB has other problems they need to deal with first. If you can't get to the Newspress article (which you probably can't), read it below. UCSB student council backs effort to ban recruiters 3/4/05 By MORGAN GREEN Students vote to ban recruitment ban The UCSB student Legislative Council has sided with a group of professors who want military recruiters ousted from the campus because gays are not allowed to serve openly in the armed forces. The Associated Students council, with 13 of 23 members present, approved a resolution by consensus late Wednesday urging the faculty Academic Senate to formally take up the issue. The resolution also urged Chancellor Henry Yang to bar recruiters from campus. The students said the military's don't ask, don't tell stance violates University of California policy against discrimination, therefore recruiters shouldn't be allowed on campus. "If the Academic Senate goes ahead and discusses it and they pass it, it will be up to the chancellor to act," said Adam Graff, an Associated Students off-campus representative and the resolution's author. The student action supports renewed efforts by 17 professors who had earlier failed to convince the Academic Senate to debate the issue. Their leader, professor Tom Scheff, sought the students' backing in order to persuade faculty leaders to place the issue on next week's Academic Senate agenda. On Thursday afternoon, that question was still undecided, said Academic Senate Chairman Walter Yuen. "We're certainly going to take the students' opinion very seriously. I'm trying to suggest it's premature to bring this to the legislature." Mr. Yuen said he instead favors a campus town hall meeting, "to educate the faculty and have a debate." The students and faculty say they are aiming only at the military policy toward gays and see the recruiters as the spearhead of that policy. Using the issue to express a wider political opposition to the war in Iraq might motivate some, said Mr. Graff, "but that didn't enter my mind, and the student legislators don't see it that way." A proposed resolution to get rid of recruiters was e-mailed to the Academic Senate in January by Mr. Scheff and 16 other faculty. With it was a companion resolution seeking a comprehensive review of the campus's ROTC program, which has never undergone such scrutiny. The Academic Senate agreed to consider a review. The matter was sent to a committee. More than 60 undergraduates are in the ROTC at UCSB. Their studies are funded by scholarships in trade for military service after graduation. Another 100 or so take part in military-related classes offered by the program. Opponents of recruiters and the ROTC saw a door open last year when a federal court of appeals struck down a law that eliminated defense-related funding for schools that barred recruiters or evicted ROTC programs. But the House last month approved a resolution in support of reviving the so-called Solomon Amendment, and there is even discussion of eliminating all federal funding from universities that close their campuses to the U.S. military. e-mail: mgreen@newspress.com http://news.newspress.com/topsports/030405recruiters.htm Nano Gnome, Mar 06 2005, 08:17 PMwell, though i think Cervin Morris should resign, and know a few folks on their a.s. who are REALLY upset with him for fuckin' up with a front page story making a.s. look bad the same day they were trying to pass a fee ref. for their Student-Iniated Outreach Center. still, it doesn't undercut the need to take a stand against shady recruiters. and i have to admire the clever way of wording it as being discriminatory and queerphobic, which is is. ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.youcsd.com/nav-commenters.gif) on March 7, 2005 04:34 PM
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