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...Don’t Tell” policy, has refused to sign the pledge. And the Pentagon threatened to cut over $400 million in government grants to Harvard unless the Law School let military recruiters on its campus.The Harvard professors’ friend-of-the-court brief presented a statutory argument that the military already had “equal access” to students because all recruiters were faced with the same nondiscrimination pledge.But FAIR’s lead attorney, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, appeared to reject that argument under questioning from Justice Stephen G. Breyer yesterday.Breyer asked...
...Marie Curie exploded that myth a century ago—but ‘how can we encourage more women with exceptional abilities to pursue careers in these fields?’” Hennesy, Hockfield, and Tilghman wrote in February. Yesterday’s brief statement did not touch on the innate abilities of women in science and sought to broaden the issue of female advancement to “academic fields throughout higher education.” “Our goal as research universities is to create conditions in which all faculty are capable...
...Still, some held out hope that FAIR would win—on statutory, not constitutional grounds—saying that though the free speech arguments appeared unsuccessful, the court could still decide the case in favor of the law schools. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in September, 40 HLS professors wrote that the Solomon Amendment requires schools to give recruiters only access that is “equal in quality and scope” to that of other recruiters access, and since all employers must comply with the nondiscrimination requirement, Harvard actually meets the Solomon Amendment?...
...It’s quite clear that the statutory exit from the constitutional quandary that our brief offered, though it seemed to tempt several justices, is unlikely to represent where the court comes out,” he said...
...nine justices attended law school at Harvard. In September, the University itself filed a brief in the case supporting FAIR’s free-speech claims...