April 30th, 2011 
davidguide Palo Alto, CA, United States (AHN) – Stanford University became the latest Ivy League school on Friday to reinastate the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
The Palo Alto campus’ faculty senate voted 28-9 to let the military set up an ROTC program despite opposition over the ban on transgender people from service. Three members of the senate abstained.
Dozens of students protested as the senate debated an ad hoc panel’s recommendation to resume the program 40 years after it was ended.
The university will work with the military to establish a “restructured” program under a proposal that was amended to make clear the senate does not endorse the ban on trangender people.
“If the leadership of the military is drawn from communities that teach and practice true tolerance, change is more likely to occur,” University President John Hennessy and Provost John Etchemendy said in a joint statement.
“The U.S. military has demonstrated an ability and willingness to change over time, and we believe Stanford can contribute by providing leadersdoes not share capable of helping create that change,” they added.
A handful of Stanford students currently take their ROTC training at neighboring campuses, including the University of Berkley.
The decision by Stanford comes after Harvard University’s anniuncement last month that it would reinstate the Naval ROTC this summer, when a law overturning “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the ban on gays in the military, takes effect.
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