Rethinking Everyday Militarism on Campus: Feminist Reflections on the Fatal Shooting at Purdue University.

MILITARISM; SCHOOL shootings; PURDUE University; UNITED States. Reserve Officers' Training Corps; FEMINIST criticism; 21ST century (Literary period)

An essay is presented on the militarism on school campuses in the U.S. It mentions a fatal shooting that occurred at Purdue University in Indiana on January 21, 2014, the apparent militarization of the university with its promotion of war and state-sanction violence including the presence of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), Purdue Homeland Security Institute and Institute for Defense Innovation, and the need to direct attention to the line between civilian and military authority.