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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Personally I don't have any strong convictions one way or another about this story. It the military is dumb enough to think a bunch of university kids, who tend to be left-leaning and feeling their oats, are a prime recruitment target then that's their business. And I doubt these university kids will be hoodwinked by a slick recruiter. So it's pretty much a tempest in a tea cup. The move smacks of poltical grandstanding by the UVic SS however, which is never a good image to project by an organization ... not if that organization wants to be taken seriously.
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Universities are very important places for the military to recruit. The majority of officers that are in the military have university degrees. There isn't much military presence anymore in Calgary and if it wasn't for the recruiters at the U of C, I may not have joined.
I'm a little surprised at the decision by Uvic. I believe that the military should be allowed to setup there. But It's probably not that big a deal because there's a lot of military presence around Victoria with Esquimalt right there and then Comox just a couple of hours away.