‘BEAUTIFUL AND BRAVE’: YALE HOLDS ITS FIRST ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY SINCE THE ’70s:

At a recent commencement address, National Security Adviser Susan Rice echoed Sen. Bob Graham’s concern that America’s national security workforce is too “white, male, and Yale” and argued that a lack of diversity is making the nation less safe.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, himself a white, male Yale graduate, visited his alma mater Monday to preside over the school’s first ROTC commissioning ceremony in four decades, and in the process gave Americans every reason to believe their nation is all the more safe because of it.

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“I hear the uniforms are a big hit on campus.” Ashton Carter to Yale’s first class of ROTC graduates in forty years.

But of course — in a university where being “transgressive” is a prized attribute, how much more transgressive can you get than wearing a uniform on campus?