GSAC favors kicking off ROTC

The Graduate Student Associations Council joined other graduate student leaders yesterday in demanding the removal of ROTC from campus unless it stops discriminating against homosexuals. In a resolution passed almost unanimously, the group called for the administration to "take action at this time toward terminating the ROTC program" by adhering to the University's "advertised policies regarding discrimination against its own students." The resolution was the same one passed without opposition by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly last week. GSAC President Anne Cubilie said members of the group felt strongly about the issue, especially since noncompliance with the code "puts everyone in jeopardy." "I feel strongly about the University violating its anti-discrimination code," Cubilie said. "I support the anti-discrimination code in the manner in which it exists." "[We] urge the president [Sheldon Hackney] to follow the recommendations of his own committee," she added. "[Having both groups pass the resolutions] speaks to the fact that there's a broad, broad consensus on this issue." "We needed to tell the University Council that they needed to move on this issue," said Bernadette Barker-Plummer, the Annenberg Representative to GSAC. GSAC also passed a resolution calling for the distribution of complete copies of a Faculty Senate committee's report to University Council members. The members of the University Council did not receive every part of the document, which called for ROTC's removal by May 1993 if policies against lesbians and gays are not changed. The ROTC issue is on the agenda of the University Council's meeting this afternoon.

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