From: "Giamati, Claudia M." <GIAMATCM@uwec.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:31:26 -0500 Subject: RE: ROTC for UWEC? Message-ID: <DC9F505A4ACB32489179913AE656565958BD5378CF@CHERRYCOKE.uwec.edu>
Point 2 is that which will trump all others{ vestiges of bush 2}
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From: sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu [mailto: [mailto:sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.e
du] On Behalf Of Richmond, Rick
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:34 PM
To: SFPJ
Subject: RE: ROTC for UWEC?
The University is going to respond with a couple of points:
- A number of UWEC students are already enrolled in ROTC through UW-Stout.
They use our facilities - McPhee, Zorn & athletic fields - yet pay substan
tial fees to Stout.
- Refusal to permit an ROTC program on campus if one is requested by the Fe
ds can result in the loss of most, if not all, federal funding.
I mention this not in support of the program - I remember too well when I s
uffered through mandatory ROTC classes in the 60s - but so that we can coun
ter the arguments.
rr
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From: sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu [mailto: [mailto:sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.e
du] On Behalf Of Pope, Karen O.
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:39 PM
To: SFPJ
Subject: ROTC for UWEC?
Hi SFPJ folks:
This press release causes me some angst/ alarm, and I expect SFPJ folks mig
ht want to be included in any campus wide debate.
http://www.uwec.edu/newsreleases/09/apr/0402ROTC.htm
I couldn't help but be dismayed and a little alarmed that, of all the cours
es of study UWEC could add and all the needs we have pressing on our resour
ces at the University, UWEC is adding ROTC. It sounds "free" but we know i
t is not; and once added, it's insidious and awfully hard to change course/
mind. Was there a pressing, public need expressed? What was wrong with
the current arrangement for 8 students to take courses via Stout? I guess
I don't get it. Is this what the premier liberal arts undergraduate insti
tution wants, really?
Do we want to take a position as a group on this issue? Will it come up i
n the Fac./student Senates?
Karen Osborne Pope
Associate Professor Emerita, McIntyre Library University of WI - Eau Claire
popekj@uwec.edu
cell 715 529 0272