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Or thus says the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors' website, in it's section entitled, "Before You Enlist". Furthermore they tell young men and women that military service is, "Hazardous to your Your Education, Your Future, People of Color, Women, Your Civil Rights, Your Health, The Environment, Our Lives".

Measure I, dubbed "College Not Combat," opposes the presence of military recruiters at public high schools and colleges. However, it would not ban the armed forces from seeking enlistees at city campuses, since that would put schools at risk of losing federal funding. Instead, Proposition I encourages city officials and university administrators to exclude recruiters and create scholarships and training programs that would reduce the military's appeal to young adults. "We now have the moral weight of the city behind us, and it's definitely a valuable asset to have in our corner," said Bob Matthews, a College Not Combat activist,...

Students clashed with Army recruiters in Petaluma during a protest Wednesday against the Iraq war and military recruiting on school campuses. About 40 people - mostly students who had walked out of classes at Casa Grande and Petaluma high schools - joined the protest at an Army recruiting office in a North McDowell Avenue shopping center. About 25 of the protesters entered the office at about 11:30 a.m. and for about 25 minutes engaged recruiters in a loud argument over the war's merits. The protesters also presented a statement demanding an end to military recruiting on campuses and a closure...

Students clashed with Army recruiters in Petaluma Wednesday during a protest against the Iraq war and military recruiting on school campuses. About 40 people — mostly high school students who had walked out of classes, plus a smattering of adults — joined the protest at an Army recruiting office in a North McDowell Avenue shopping center. About 25 of the protesters entered the office at about 11:30 p.m. and for about 15 minutes engaged recruiters in an argument — that at times reached shouting levels — about the war’s merits. After the shopping center’s manager told the group they had...

Military recruiters better not call Donna Brightman's children at home. She wants different futures for her teenage sons. "I'm not anti-military ... but I am anti-Iraq war," Brightman said during a phone interview Sunday. At a time when military recruiters are struggling nationally to meet their new-soldier goals, parents like Brightman are indicating a reluctance to hear about the benefits the service branches have to offer.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2005 – A case concerning colleges' right to receive federal funding but bar military recruiters from campuses because of disagreements over homosexual policy is scheduled to be argued before the Supreme Court this session. The 1996 "Solomon Amendment" provides for the government to deny federal funding to institutions of higher learning if they prevent ROTC or military recruitment on campus. In December, the court will hear a case arguing that the law impinges on the free speech rights of colleges and law schools. "The Solomon Amendment establishes that for military recruiting, which is an important public function,...

Metal to medal? Military recruiters work the Ozzfest The U.S. Marines manning a recruiting tent at the music festival were wearing camouflage but they didn't exactly blend in. BY WILLIAM WEIR The Hartford Courant Posted on Sun, Aug. 14, 2005 POP CULTURE Commerce at the Ozzfest in Hartford, Conn., is plentiful and brisk, and tends toward the countercultural. Items for sale include marijuana-flavored candy, clothing with spikes, and Cat-in-the-Hat-style hats with pictures of pot leaves. The river of people that flows from booth to booth on a recent Sunday boasts a lot of fishnet and hairstyles that fully exploit the...

SAN FRANCISCO — Anti-war activists submitted a ballot measure Monday that would put the city on record as opposing the presence of military recruiters in public high schools and colleges. The nonbinding "College Not Combat" resolution acknowledges that a ban would put schools at risk of losing federal funding. If the measure qualifies for the November ballot and is approved by voters, it would encourage city officials and university administrators to exclude recruiters — even if it means forsaking government dollars — and to create scholarships and training to reduce the military's appeal to youth.

On Monday, four US military recruiting offices in Seattle were shut down when students blocked the entrances to protest recruitment practices and to oppose the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile the Parent Teacher Student Association at one school has passed a resolution recommending that military recruiters be barred from the campus. [includes rush transcript] Students from nine local universities, community colleges and high schools joined in simultaneous demonstrations. A military recruiting office near the University of Washington and another near Garfield High School were also blockaded by groups of students. Garfield High School also made news recently when the school's Parent...

Santa Monica College's Career Island became a target for anti-war demonstrators when the military showed up as equal opportunity employers. "What they ended up doing was turning it into their show, and then some employers didn't get to hire or interview people," said Vicki Rothman, career center faculty leader. "They have a right to free speech, I agree, but legally the Army, the Navy, and whoever else, also has the right to be here. And sure, the students have a right to protest, but they did it in a way that shows the college, the community, and their fellow students...

On my radio show today, I addressed the topic of military “counter-recruiters.” You know what military recruiters are—the people who go to high schools and colleges and tell young people about their opportunities to serve their country in the military. Well, now there are also “counter-recruiters” who go to these schools and tell young people why they shouldn’t serve their country in the military.

When The New York Times, “Nightline,” and CNN nominate a young blonde for sainthood ahead of the Pope, it’s time for a reality check. Especially when that blonde, Marla Ruzicka’s sole purpose is to legitimize our enemies, cause problems for U.S. troops already in harms way, and morally equivocate dead terrorists with victims of 9/11. Jane Fonda lite—but unfortunately without having been spat upon by right-thinking veterans. The recent death of Ruzicka, an American “activist” in Iraq, elicited an orgy of gush—everywhere from Time Magazine to The Guardian of London to Al-Jazeera. A 28-year-old San Franciscan, Ruzicka was in Iraq...

EVANSVILLE – A provision in a sweeping education overhaul law that allowed military recruiters broad access to students is under fire, fueled in part by charges of sexual abuse by military recruiters. Critics say the No Child Left Behind law is putting young people at risk by requiring high schools to give military recruiters access to the names, addresses and phone numbers of students unless a parent objects. At least eight recruiters have been accused of assaulting potential or new recruits in Indiana, West Virginia, Washington, California, New York and Maryland since the law took effect in 2002. “These privacy...

<p>The leftists carried a coffin and marched today in Fort Collins, Colorado. They had a tough day folks, the FReepers were there to spoil the party.......LOTS of photos.....</p>

The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided to halt enforcement of a federal statute known as the Solomon Amendment. Simply, the statute required colleges and universities receiving federal funds to provide military recruiters the same access to students as other on-campus recruiters. This decision means, in effect, that educational institutions no longer risk losing federal support if military recruiters are barred from their campuses. Within days of the announcement, the Harvard Law School faculty agreed to bar military recruiters from the school.

The fine print in President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act is slowly dawning on the parents of high school students across the country as the war in Iraq drags on: military recruiters can blitz youngsters with uninvited phone calls to their homes and on-campus pitches replete with video war games. This is all possible under a little noted part of the law that requires schools to provide the names, addresses (campus addresses, too) and phone numbers of students or risk losing federal aid. The law provides an option to block the hard-sell recruitment - but only if parents demand...

Hamline University's Student Congress will vote today on a resolution asking university administrators to ban U.S. military recruiters on the campus because the military discriminates against gays. "I think we're probably going to pass it," said Graham Lampa, a 21-year-old Brainerd, Minn., senior who authored the resolution at the St. Paul university. "If we are going to allow recruiters onto our campus, we want to make sure they are willing to take any of our students, not just the white students or the straight students or the rich students," Lampa said.

We’ll soon have 150,000 U.S. troops stuck in the ever-expanding Iraqi quagmire, a number that will probably grow even larger before Iraq holds elections presently scheduled for the end of January ’05. Maintaining such a force is a logistical and personnel nightmare for every grunt in Iraq. And according to several Pentagon number crunchers, it’s also driving the top brass bonkers. Meanwhile the insurgents continue cutting our supply lines and whacking our fighting platoons and supporters, who attrit daily as soldiers and Marines fall to enemy shots, sickness or accidents. Empty platoons lose fights, so these casualties have to be...

To the Editor: Re "Colleges Can Bar Army Recruiters" (front page, Nov. 30): As a law student, I take issue with the Justice Department's claim that law schools "discriminate" against the military by refusing to allow its recruiters on campus. On the contrary, my law school (New York University School of Law) and others have the eminently nonselective policy of excluding all employers from campus that discriminate on the basis of race, sex and sexual orientation. Employers who wish to recruit on campus are free to abandon their discriminatory policies. Supporters of the Solomon Amendment, the law at issue in...

PHILADELPHIA — Colleges and universities can ban military recruiters from campus without fear of losing government funds, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday struck down a decade-old federal law known as the Solomon Amendment, saying it infringed on the free-speech rights of law schools that had sought to limit on-campus recruiting in response to the military's ban on homosexuals. Previous Federal court won't dismiss challenge to military-recruiting rule Ruling in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of 25 law schools around the country, a three-judge panel decided 2-1 that the government's threat...