Student Columnist Says ROTC Mirrors A Criminal Organization

In 2015, a student columnist at Brown University named Pete Makhlouf wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper claiming that ROTC should be banned from campus because it trains students for “state-sanctioned violence”. According to the column, it is misleading to call the classes ‘military science’; “This is not science; this is the art of killing and torturing. It seems that ROTC’s attempt to recruit academically elite students is a calculated attempt to rope the best and brightest into the industry of state-sanctioned violence.”

Source: http://www.browndailyherald.com/2015/02/05/makhlouf-16-rotc-return-criminals-2/