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Over the past forty years there has been a metamorphosis in how the people of the United States have viewed the military. From the days of flag burnings and accusations of soldiers as murderers, America ’s bumpers now read the slogan, “Support our Troops.”  Through it all, our troops have done their job, sometimes dying, to protect the right for us to have both of these views and all those in between.


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In my pursuit of a topic to write on this week, I again turned to a trusty friend: my email inbox. Indeed, my inbox has often been a magnet for inflammatory political emails. Those that know me well also know that I enjoy a good email debate every now and then. As it turns out, this week was no exception.

Michael Behe Promotes Intellegent Design Students Deserve to Have ROTC Back on Campus

More evidence exists for intelligent design than for neo-Darwinism, and “grand Darwinian claims rest on undis­ciplined imagination,” according to Lehigh University biochemistry pro­fessor Michael J. Behe.

It has been over 30 years since Stanford’s campus served as host for an ROTC program, and it is time for this political blockade to cease. In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, our faculty senate threw out the ROTC program—stripping its instructors of fac­ulty status and refusing to credit ROTC courses—arguing the curriculum was “awful…sophomoric.”