"And finally... students pay thousands and thousands of dollars in fees, work many campus jobs, and enable the whole university system to run. As much as those in power wish to control what occurs, it is ultimately OUR university and we have the power to shut it down."

Taxpayers contribute much more money than we students do - and regardless, it is not just "your" university. There are also people there who might not have the same opinions as you and I don't quite understand your insistance on anything you disagree with not being allowed.

I mean, how would you feel if planned parenthood was banned from the campus because they promote the murder of unborn babies? I bet you'd be pretty riled up - but in that person's mind it would make perfect since.

"And yes it is actually my university. It sure as hell isn't the military's university."

It's not yours or the military's, it's the state of California's, and the state represents the wishes and desires of the entire populace.

My point still stands, what right do you have to limit another person's ability to exercise their rights? Be it the military, the ku klux klan, or planned parenthood?

"The military teaches you how to kill and murder others. Unless your future job is hired assassin, the military is not teaching you valuable job skills. A career in the military is a huge step down for a college student. Especially when that career makes you an amputee back from Iraq.

The goal of UCSC should not be to train its students to kill. It should be to train its students to be positive members of society."

Neither of those statements are entirely true, as far as I'm aware UCSC does not actually have much to do with the military aside from letting a recruiter set up a table - where do they they have boot camp on campus?

But I'm afraid your statement is rather selfish - not that many people join the military to kill (though there are those that do, granted)... They do it for a myriad of reasons and the way you speak about the military it seems to me you don't actually know that much about it, or the people who have served in it.