| # | Name | Comments |
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| 251 | Deborah Gault | |
| 252 | Heather Moss | |
| 253 | Christiane Markus | |
| 254 | patrick letterii | |
| 255 | travis hudson | |
| 256 | Bailey Alexander | |
| 257 | Elizabeth DuVerlie | |
| 258 | Anonymous | |
| 259 | Martine Richards | |
| 260 | Anonymous | |
| 261 | Anonymous | I suspect that this has less to do with assisting the 23 members of UMBC enroled in ROTC programs and more to do with financial incentive. As many of us are aware, UMBC does not have the greatest fiscal track record:
"An audit of three awards for $9.4 million to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) found serious internal control deficiencies, including inconsistent adherence with UMBC’s established financial management practices. These deficiencies resulted in $174,655 of erroneous costs claimed to NSF grants and if not corrected, could have a significant impact on UMBC’s ability to administer future award funds. Auditors found as a material weakness that UMBC staff did not always follow the University’s cost accounting procedures to ensure that costs charged to NSF awards were accurate, allowable, and allocable. The university also lacked procedures to detect errors in the amount of indirect costs claimed, and failed to adequately monitor subawardees." from The National Science Foundation's Semiannual Report to Congress, September 2007. |
| 262 | Monica Saavedra | |
| 263 | Adam J. Kurtz | Discrimination is not a UMBC value.
We are a diverse honors university with a comprehensive campus community that includes people from all kinds of backgrounds. It is unfair to even suggest that this is appropriate for our institution, regardless of scholarship funding.
UMBC's integrity is NOT for sale! |
| 264 | Sigurdur Oli Sigurdsson | |
| 265 | Patrick J. Elder | Please keep ROTC out! |
| 266 | Elizabeth McAlister | I happily sign this petition. We need peacemakers and not people trained in the ways of war as if that were normalcy. |
| 267 | Joseph Tayabji | |
| 268 | Stephen Thompson | |
| 269 | Josef W. Parker | As a student at University of Maryland College Park, a college that openly does research for Lockheed Martin and has a large ROTC program, I feel that our school has seriously been co-opted by the collegiate-military complex, which another program at UMBC would be seriously contributing to. |
| 270 | jordan epstien | |
| 271 | Katelyn Kresse-Smith | go away military! |
| 272 | Anonymous | |
| 273 | Christopher Magaha | I strongly oppose the creation of an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at UMBC. |
| 274 | Dinah Douglas | |
| 275 | David Thomas | You don't belong here |
| 276 | Colette Searls | |
| 277 | Colin Leach | |
| 278 | Stephanie Tkaczyk | |
| 279 | Kelly Fitzgerald | I feel like students carrying around life-like guns makes it too easy for students to bring real guns onto our campus. I will not feel safe, and one of the reason I came to UMBC was because it has been such a safe campus. |
| 280 | Steve Jackson | |
| 281 | Daphne Gardner | |
| 282 | Margaret Grieves | |
| 283 | Cristina Mangum | I agree with what is stated in this petition and feel that UMBC should be a place of learning, not an area for the military to build their forces. |
| 284 | George Cutsail | |
| 285 | ian bukowski | |
| 286 | Anonymous | |
| 287 | Anonymous | |
| 288 | Elizabeth Scott | |
| 289 | Christopher Marchsteiner | I am largely uninformed on the nature of the proposal and do not know to what extent this will affect my campus. Therefore, I am signing this petition exclusively because of the final point; there has simply not been an open and honest discussion on the matter, and that gives me, as a responsible student at UMBC, cause for concern. |
| 290 | Lucy Duff | |
| 291 | Alexander Layne | |
| 292 | Anonymous | |
| 293 | Christopher Nguyen | Computer Science, Mathematics Class of 2006 |
| 294 | Megan Switalski | |
| 295 | Susan Lattimore | |
| 296 | Anonymous | |
| 297 | Siarra T. Mong | |
| 298 | E. Heather Strassberger | I graduated from UMBC in 1999 and am deeply disturbed that the university would move forward with such a potentially campus-changing project on such short notice and with so little opportunity for public debate. Clearly, the army is acting aggressively to find new ways to procure soldiers for an unpopular war. Bringing the military onto more college campuses may make a lot of sense for them but the university administration needs to act carefully and diligently in the interest of its entire student body, not just the few who might benefit from ROTC scholarships. If such a project is to be undertaken, it needs to be done only after sufficient time has been spent studying all of the potential impacts of this new "department" on the campus. |
| 299 | Carlos Zigel | As a UMBC Alumnus, and as a citizen, I would like to register my STRONG opposition to the creation of a ROTC program at UMBC. |
| 300 | L.O. Phont | |