Pentagon: Colleges must hand over names

[unhappycamper]

Pentagon: Colleges must hand over names
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Apr 1, 2008 5:58:38 EDT

The Defense Department has announced a new get-tough policy with colleges and universities that interfere with the work of military recruiters and Reserve Officer Training Corps programs.

Under rules that will take effect April 28, defense officials said they want the exact same access to student directories that is provided to all other prospective employers.

Students can opt out of having their information turned over to the military only if they opt out of having their information provided to all other recruiters, but schools cannot have policies that exclude only the military, defense officials said in a March 28 notice of the new policy in the Federal Register.

The Defense Department “will honor only those student ‘opt-outs’ from the disclosure of directory information that are even-handedly applied to all prospective employers seeking information for recruiting purposes,” the notice says.

Directories are an important recruiting tool because they include the names, birthdates, phone numbers and academic pursuits of college students that can be used to identify people with knowledge and interests that are particularly useful to the military.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/military_recruiters_schools_033108w/

[thunder rising]

1. Universities are NOT high schools ... give'em the names.

[fed-up]

3. what happened to Free Choice for students? Students should decide who gets their info nt

[NYVet]

4. Fine. As long as the colleges make the student opt in for every company

Why should there be 2 sets of rules for the government and the private sector?

[whistle]

2. Just like Nazi Germany with its mandated conscription into military service

...leading into WWII

[NYVet]

5. Nobody is forcing these students into goverment service.

And I would hardly think that the Dems in Congress would let it happen.