Welcoming Veterans military education guide


Veterans say it sometimes feels the odds are


administrators, teachers, and lawmakers are


stacked against them on campus. In response,


stepping up to welcome servicemembers nationwide.


By Heidi Russell Rafferty


he fi rst time Luke Stalcup went to visit his professor dur- ing offi ce hours at Columbia University in New York, he noticed a cut-out cartoon on


the door: “It was a uniformed leg and a booted foot standing on an Arab-looking man’s face with the text, ‘De-mo-cra-cy-De-mo-cra-cy,’ written underneath,” says Stalcup, a blogger for the Student Veterans of America (SVA).


“I assume this guy thought of himself as very bold for posting a political cartoon on his door,” Stalcup wrote in his blog. “I can’t say I felt devastated or anything, but it was a bit odd to go to see the


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head of your program and pass by a cartoon that purports to feature you. I can only assume that that might have been my leg in cartoon form standing on some poor guy and en- couraging him to say democracy.” At the time, Stalcup was an un-


dergraduate double-majoring in Middle Eastern and Asian languag- es and cultures and math. He also was enrolled in the Arabic program. His experience, unfortunately, is not uncommon, say other veter- ans and university administrators across the country who are fi ghting for their campuses to become more veteran-friendly. A nationally pub- licized incident in February, also at Columbia, involved the heckling of a Purple Heart recipient. Veterans agree going from war-


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