TIME TO ENFORCE THE SOLOMON ACT
NO MORE EXCUSES FOR BANNING RECRUITERS/ROTC

The Solomon Act, first enacted in 1995, was established to address the problem of liberal universities banning ROTC and military recruiters from campuses as far back as the 1960’s. Under the Solomon Act, schools and universities that receive federal funding could lose those funds if the school in question does not cooperate with ROTC and military recruitment programs.

For years, universities, even Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale have closed their doors to our military, and when the Solomon Act became law and threatened their hefty federal government grants, schools scrambled to find a loop hole. Since then, schools like Columbia, which was the site of last week’s horrendous attack on a disabled Iraq war hero, have avoided being penalized through the Solomon Act by claiming that military discrimination of gays through “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” violated their school’s discrimination policies.

Now that DADT was repealed by Congress, these schools can no longer use DADT as an excuse for violating the requirements of the Solomon Act. Therefore there should be no reason why they continue to ban ROTC and military recruiters from campuses.

But despite the official policy change, we continue to see incidents of open hostility to our nation’s military and those who serve in it, such as the incident at Columbia which disgusted so many, and began this debate. So why do Columbia and other Ivy League schools maintain this anti-military attitude.

Jed Babbin writing for the American spectator reminds us that before DADT became the big scapegoat universities across the country had already banned ROTC, banned military recruiters, or both long before the Solomon Act.

Students should be reminded that their very rights to protest are protected and ensured by the brave men and women of the military who risk their lives for our sake.

Isn’t it time we start enforcing the Solomon Act?! If schools don’t want to open their doors to our military, to which we owe everything, they don’t deserve the benefits of federal funding for other pet projects. Sign our petition to call on schools to either allow ROTC back on campus or finally face the penalties in accordance with the Solomon Act.

No sooner had the ink from President Obama’s pen dried on the paper that outlawed DADT were college professors and apologists for the universities already making more excuses. They needed a new rationalization, something else to be unhappy about, as justification to continue their policies of barring recruiters.

Even after Obama made the call for ROTC to be welcomed back in schools the university professors and administrators were undeterred! In fact just weeks before the despicable incident at Columbia, a professor from that school, Jonathan R. Cole, penned an article for The Huffington Post, arguing against ROTC.

According to Cole, accepting gays is not enough, it is also incumbent upon military leaders to ensure that gays are not only accepted by the military, but elevated to a high enough position within the greater society of America. Not only for gays, but also for the transgender, mixed gender, gender-confused and everything in between.

Since when did it become the military’s responsibility to fix society’s problems? Focusing their frustrations with other societal problems or factors on the military will not only fail to help whatever they’re unhappy about, it unfairly targets our military, which is not the source of the problem!

Cole, the University of Columbia and other schools are trying to come up with more excuses to violate the Solomon Act, it’s time to say no more excuses!

SIGN OUR PETITION TO ENFORCE THE SOLOMON ACT! SCHOOLS SHOULD ALLOW RECRUITERS AND ROTC BACK TO CAMPUS OR THEY SHOULD LOSE FEDERAL FUNDING!

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