Rethinking ROTC?

"Meanwhile: As Columbia welcomes Ahmadinejad to campus, Columbia students who want to serve their country cannot enroll in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Columbia. Columbia students who want to enroll in ROTC must travel to other universities to fulfill their obligations. ROTC has been banned from the Columbia campus since 1969....
A perfect synecdoche for too much of American higher education: they are friendlier to Ahmadinejad than to the U.S. military."
-William Kristol, The Weekly Standard

Some of you mentioned at the Dems' Ahmadinemania debrief that you were interested in reopening discussion on Columbia's ban on ROTC recruiting (for violating University discrimination policies). We here at L&D are willing to stay above the fray, for now, but tell us what you think. Outmoded, unpatriotic policy or principled defense of civil rights? Comment away...