After months wrought with heated debates, Columbia students and faculty members can finally rest easy: the campus-wide ban of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps will remain intact.

Earlier this morning, the CCSC president George Krebs announced the results for three of the four undergraduate schools—Columbia College, SEAS and General Studies. By a narrow margin of 39 votes, Columbia students voted to keep the NROTC off campus, ad infinitum.

The BWOG has the official word:

The NROTC poll was closed at 9 am Monday morning and here's the tally:

We sent out 6913 email invitations, including all CC, SEAS, and GS
undergraduate students. We received 2971 valid votes, representing 43% of the population.

1463 YES, 49.24%;
1502 NO, 50.56%;
6 ABSTAIN, 0.20%.

Of course, one undergraduate school remains: Barnard. So, there is still a chance that the scale will tip in the NROTC’s favor.

However, such a twist of events would require a majority of the liberal hippies at Barnard to vote ‘yes’, which is about as likely as Ryan Seacrest actually being straight.