Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies
Should a Catholic university host ROTC?
ROTC students, as well as pre-med students, will most likely face decisions with life-or-death consequences someday. While moral education is important for all students, it seems clear to me that it is absolutely crucial for these students, who will hold so many lives in their hands. Any university would be negligent in not providing a moral education for ROTC students, and a Catholic university would be negligent in not providing a Catholic moral education, especially since just-war theory is so clearly defined and so tailored to ROTC students' future careers.
Sheila Payne
junior
Cavanaugh Hall
April 28, 2002
In our society there exist many injustices that will go unchecked without the power of a just military ...
That is the very reason we need ROTC at this school. We need to have people with morals who will give those orders and have the will to disobey unjust ones ...
ROTC at Notre Dame is essential to ensure that the future leaders of our military will conduct war in a just manner with Christian values guiding their decisions.
John Dues
freshman
Dillon Hall
April 25, 2000
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