SANTA BARBARA, CA, March 5, 2010 - The Palm Center released a statement today by Dr. Aaron Belkin, Palm’s Director and Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara in response to a New York Times Op-ed by Former Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak.
The Palm Center, a think tank at the University of California, Santa Barbara, produces scholarship designed to enhance the quality of public dialogue about critical and controversial public policy issues. Since 1998, the Center has been a leader in commissioning and disseminating research in the areas of gender, sexuality, and the military.
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Former Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak published an op-ed in the New York Times today in which he claimed that during the 1993 debate over gays in the military, "A lot more heat than light
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SANTA BARBARA, CA., March 2, 2010 - The Palm Center announces the paperback release of the definitive book on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by Palm Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Nathaniel Frank.



