Subject: Success: Yale faculty votes YES on ROTC!
From: "Mike Breen" <[email-masked]>
To: "Christopher Heinz" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Rachel Kleinfield" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 21:39:10 -0400

Dear Chris and Hunter,

I wanted to pass along some great news: this afternoon, the Yale faculty
voted to remove all obstacles to ROTC on campus by a very significant
margin. Support for ROTC was so large that the Dean never had to put it to
ballots. A simple show of hands was enough. Remarkably, there was no student
protest on this issue at all -- literally not one kid with a sign. There
have been student protests and vocal opposition from small groups of faculty
at every other Ivy, so today's quiet and overwhelming success is truly
unique.

I'm just getting home from a celebratory dessert at President Levin's home.
Several Generals from Air Force Cadet Command were present, and although
this information is not yet public I'm happy to say that we seem to be close
to an agreement that will bring an Air Force program to Yale. It remains to
be seen whether or not the details will be worked out in time for classes in
the coming fall, however. Yale is also in very quiet preliminary talks with
the Navy, and things look good so far.

Thanks to both of you for your support in this effort. While we never needed
to call on you to take up the fight, your willingness to serve if necessary
spoke volumes in several private conversations with senior university
leaders. I'm proud to be a bulldog veteran tonight, and I thank you both for
helping us bring home the win.

Best,
Mike Breen

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