University President Lee Bollinger signed an agreement with Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus atop the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima Thursday morning, officially recognizing a Naval ROTC program on campus.
A small audience of military veterans, students, and uniformed naval officers observed the ceremony. The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has not been recognized by Columbia since Vietnam War protests incited the suspension of the University’s NROTC program in 1969.
Bollinger repeated his assertion that an NROTC program will produce “an even more invaluable forum” for intellectual discovery at the University.
“This offers a new era of a great relationship between universities like ours and armed forces,” Bollinger told Spectator. “We are rebuilding that relationship.”
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