Wilson Gives ROTC Notice
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	Chico State President Robin Wilson has implemented a pro-gay 
Faculty Senate Resolution by drafting a letter that directs ROTC 
to begin a gradual phaseout beginning next Fall. 
	The May 1991 Resolution has three parts: "eliminate 
university credit for ROTC courses"; "exclude advertisements, 
notices, listings and references to...the ROTC program...from 
catalogs, bulletins and announcements"; and "withdraw faculty 
status from ROTC instructors."
	The 24 cadets currently enrolled in the program have been 
assured completion of the program. But the phaseout will 
render new students who enroll next Fall unable to earn 
university credit for the duration of the four year ROTC 
program. Freshmen cadets who enroll the following year (Fall 
1993) will not receive university credit for ROTC courses.
	Wilson also directed Major Doug G. Campbell, Chair of the 
Department of Military Science, to announce the "phased 
withdrawal of university credit for Military Science courses" in 
the next edition of the University Catalog.
	Additionally Wilson will strip faculty status from Military 
Science instructors at the conclusion of the last course in which 
credit is awarded.
	The resolution falls short of an outright ban of ROTC but, if all 
three parts are implemented, the ability of the program to 
attract students and instructors will be severely crippled.
	Maj. Campbell predicts, "If it got to that point (faculty status 
withdrawn from instructors) I don't think ROTC would still be 
here."
	If the Pentagon doesn't drop their discriminatory policy 
against gay and lesbian recruits before the deadline, the end of 
CSUC's ROTC program seems inevitable. An executive order from 
the U.S. President is one of the fastest ways to change the 
policy.
 
[Originally published in the _CenterStone_, the 
newsmagazine of the Stonewall Alliance of Chico.
]