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Regaining Your Vote on the ROTC Issue

Regaining Your Vote on the ROTC Issue

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Started by Anonymous 15 years, 5 months ago
We, the undersigned, are very much part of the Columbia University community. Constituting the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, We are students in classes with, teachers to, peers of, and are current and former military personnel. However, in 2008 ALL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS were given a chance to voice their opinions in an online vote, similar to the survey being sent out to the undergraduate schools and SIPA now. Between 2008 and now, Our votes have been absconded. We want Our right to vote returned. Contrary to the view being proliferated, the presence of ROTC at Columbia does not not merely affect the students of Columbia College,Barnard, and SIPA but indeed affects and is pertinent to Us all. Therefore, before any vote, survey, or other action regarding this issue is taken, We respectfully ask that our votes be returned immediately.

Updates

February 20, 2011

I started this because I felt that our corner of the community was being left out of the conversation entirely. Reading your stories has shown me that this is about much more than just a procedural vote, and I am honestly overwhelmed by how many of you feel the same way.

February 20, 2011

I am honestly overwhelmed by the momentum we have built together lately. This movement has become something much larger than I ever imagined when I first started it. The credit belongs entirely to the community members who refused to let their voices go ignored.

6 Comments

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Elena West
15 years ago Featured

Enough with the exclusion. Whether you like rotc or not, we all deserve a voice in our own academic community.

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Mike Bryant
15 years ago Featured

Every student at Columbia should have a say in this, not just some of the schools. Bring back the vote.

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Tom Russell
15 years ago Featured

It affects everyone on campus. Let us vote.

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David Hassan
15 years ago Featured

VETERANS ARE PART OF THIS SCHOOL. GIVE US OUR VOTE BACK.

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Sarah Castro
15 years ago Featured

Ridiculous that they think they can just ignore thousands of us. We deserve to be heard too.

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Jessica Lambert
15 years ago Featured

Why was the vote taken away in the first place? Seems pretty shady to me.

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