Thursday, February 21, 2008

No More Recruiting in Berkeley?

The other day i came across an article about how Berkeley's city council wants to close down the Marine Corps. station down, which is located next to the UC Berkeley campus. People in the city of Berkeley don't want to stop the recruitment of young people for the Iraq war, which is a war that majority of the city is strongly against. So this all makes me think of freedom of speech, and doesn't the Marine Corps. have a right by the first amendment to say what they want to say? and give infornamtion they want to give? This article also mentioned that "the no child left behind act," requires elementary schools to all recruiters on their campus or they lose federal funding...... So does that mean if the Marines are asked to leave Berkeley will have funding cut? I am really curious to hear others oppions on this matter. I do believe that because of the freedom of speech recruiters have a right to say what they want and give out what infornmantion they want but i don't think recruiting should be a required or forced, if that makes any sense at all...... What do you think about it?