COUNTERING MILITARY RECRUITMENT
Articles: Military Recruiting: JROTC/ROTC
ROTC duped by woman who posed as student
ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 31, 2007
PALO
ALTO, A young woman accused of posing as a Stanford University student
for eight months also fooled Santa Clara University's Army ROTC, which
provided her with equipment and included her in classes, a newspaper
reported.
Stanford officials say Azia Kim, 18, of Fullerton, attended classes and
lived on campus, talking her way into several dormitories until the
ruse was discovered last week.
Kim used that guise to misrepresent herself to an ROTC adviser,
military officials said. Since Stanford doesn't offer an ROTC program,
she enrolled in cadet classes at nearby Santa Clara, the Stanford Daily
first reported Tuesday.
Kim sat in on classes on military history and military equipment, said
Robert Rosenburgh, a spokesman for the ROTC Western Command.
Stanford ROTC adviser Diana Clough said Kim, following ROTC
requirements, regularly sent her information about her grades, falsely
reporting she had received A's in English and humanities classes, an
A-in economics and a B in chemistry. “She was a good
student, I've been told,†Rosenburgh said.
The Army doesn't intend to further investigate the issue, assuming it
was a prank, Rosenburgh said. A variety of checks would have prevented
Kim from becoming an Army officer, he said.
City police and the university are continuing their investigation,
trying to understand how Kim managed to fool students and officials for
nearly a year. The information will be sent to the Santa Clara County
district attorney's office, which will decide whether to prosecute.
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