40 at CSUN Protest Decision to Keep ROTC
About 40 students and faculty members blocked the main entrance of the Cal State Northridge administration building for more than two hours Wednesday, protesting the university president’s decision to retain the ROTC program after faculty members voted to ban it because of the military’s ban on homosexuals.
Chanting “ROTC go away. Racist, sexist, anti-gay,” the demonstrators wore CSUN sweat shirts stenciled with the word “discriminates” in Day-Glo orange and carried banners that read, “Where is Democracy at CSUN?” and “When some are oppressed, none are free.”
CSUN faculty members last month voted to abolish the ROTC program, in which 42 students are enrolled, because of the U.S. Defense Department’s exclusion from military service of those who are openly homosexual. That recommendation was overturned Monday by President James W. Cleary.
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