Sophomore Tom Braslavsky, a Hatchet columnist, describes how the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy has hit home at GW, and needs to be repealed.

Speaking on the U.S. military’s policy of discharging openly gay and lesbian service members, Obama echoed one of his campaign promises and said, “I will end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.'” There was much clapping and rejoicing at the end of the president’s speech.

But the next morning, nothing had changed. Obama did not set any kind of timetable for implementing his promise. There was no talk of an executive order and no push to speed up anti-DADT efforts through Congress. The policy, which, according to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, has kicked over 13,000 men and women out of the military since its implementation in 1993, continues to hurt American equality and security.