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...could have is unclear, but we can never know unless we try. Interim University President Derek C. Bok could easily write a letter to Congressional leaders, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the White House, and send a copy along to the New York Times for good measure. One amicus brief from a group of law professors is not enough.Students, too, should focus their efforts on the real wrong that is being perpetuated by Solomon, not on auxiliary concerns. We applaud the efforts of Lambda, the Law School’s gay rights activist group, to protest DADT purposefully...
...primarily responsible for helping to enlist the best legal minds to assist in preparing the amicus brief that was cited so extensively by the Supreme Court,” Bok wrote in an e-mail...
...amicus brief Steiner put together explained why student diversity is important in educational institutions and how colleges should go about promoting this diversity...
...Supreme Court eventually voted 5-4 that race is a legitimate factor to be considered in college admissions. Justice Lewis F. Powell, who announced the Court’s opinion, used the amicus brief filed by Steiner to support the decision. Powell cited Harvard College’s admissions program as one example of a constitutional affirmative action program...
...recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy this past September, Harvard has continued to fight the Solomon Amendment. Harvard was not a part of FAIR, the consortium of three-dozen law schools that filed suit. But Harvard’s central administration joined six other universities in filing an amicus brief in support of FAIR. Additionally, Kagan and 39 other law professors filed a separate brief arguing that Harvard’s practice of holding all recruiters—military or not—to the same nondiscrimination policy was in compliance with the equal access clause of the Solomon...