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chantal1382

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Apr 13, 2005 00:11

So I've been doing a lot of thinking about this resolution to get ROTC off campus. I keep meaning to be all bad-ass and show up to one of the meetings in uniform and give them a piece of my logical yet righteously indigant mind, but other things keep getting in the way...plus I doubt I'd really be as eloquent as I'd like to think I'd be. I keep ( Read more... )

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superjan42 April 13 2005, 11:41:30 UTC

i'd much rather you hang out on campus than die. actually, i'd rather you do anything than die. no dying. deal? deal.

chuckro April 13 2005, 12:59:06 UTC

We also can't get recognized as a student organization. Funny how that works.

Seriously: Form the Princeton Armed Services Support Organization. Compose it of both the ROTC folks and anyone who wants to help them out. Make the group's "purpose" nominally different from ROTC--something like "To support those willing to die for our country blah blah blah" and use it to get funding/vans/space as necessary. (And if you're feeling adventurous, you can raise money or send morale-boosters overseas, but that's all secondary.) If the Princeton Peace Project can get money to stage useless protests, forming "PASSO" should be cake.

Should the University just support ROTC outright? Of course--it should support everything that there's student interest in; that's what it's there for. But if you can't get direct support, finagle the system and get indirect support.

edgehopper April 13 2005, 20:51:14 UTC

Don't know if you want to form any association with them, but I'm sure PCAT would form such a division if you talked to them. That's the sort of thing they do.

chantal1382 April 15 2005, 00:35:14 UTC

hmmm. interesting idea. i think something like this was tried half-heartedly a few years ago...they were going to call it the "Air Force Community at Princeton," which seems fairly obvious that it's just a cover for AFROTC. It never really went anywhere...mostly because no one ran with it after the people with the original idea graduated. deja vu? =) I'll pass the idea along though. I'd never actually thought about starting a "military support" organization...guess it just didn't occur to me that the supporters and supportees could be one and the same. (*gasp* support ourselves? that's what booster clubs and non-military spouses are for, dang it! =)