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The current law, passed last year as the "Solomon Amendment," allows the government to withhold federal grants, like Stafford Loans and Pell Grants, to law schools that don't comply. The law has put law schools across the country in a predicament: stand by their principles and risk losing federal...
Harvard Law School (HLS) has not been affected by the Solomon Amendment and would not be directly affected by the proposed Campbell-Frank amendment. Military recruiters are not completely banned from campus--though they are prohibited from using HLS' career center--and the Pentagon was apparently satisfied with HLS' policies...
Even though HLS has not had to alter its policies, Donahue said she is "hopeful that the Solomon Amendment will be altered," a sentiment echoed by Monk, who said the Solomon Amendment "serves no legitimate purpose at all."
Gerald B.H. Solomon, the now- retired New York Republican representative whoauthored the amendment that now bears his name,disagrees.
He cautioned, however, that universities mightbe looking for a loophole to exploit in an attemptto repeal the entire amendment, which alsowithholds defense department grants from theuniversities.