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...individual school. Nevertheless, these recent developments only further underline the critical need for the entire University community to act more aggressively to overturn the Solomon Amendment and its undue encroachment upon the right of academic institutions to enforce their own internal policies and protect their students’ civil rights...
Even more outrageous, however, is the Pentagon’s draconian enforcement of a statute that essentially forces academic institutions to condone the suppression of a minority group’s civil rights. By threatening to withhold its grants, the federal government is implying that it is more important that military recruiters are given on campus resources than it is to support the many humanitarian, medical, and academic efforts that these grants underwrite at Harvard. Remove the politically charged debate surrounding the Solomon Amendment from the equation, and we suspect even staunch Solomon supporters would trade a few extra...
...Solomon controversy, the University has conspicuously resisted joining other schools who are suing the government. If President Summers does not feel comfortable taking this sort of stand, then he and others within the University should seek other ways to show that Harvard is serious about standing behind the civil rights of its students. As a first step, Summers and Dean Kagan could invite retired military officials, lawyers, and members of academia to join in a summit discussing the best means to overturn the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?...
...Obama is breaking out. As the only African-American member of the Senate, Obama has faced some private grumbling for not joining the Congressional Black Caucus in challenging the electoral results in 2004 in Ohio. (Civil rights groups complained that African-American voters there faced long lines and other problems casting their ballots.) But after Hurricane Katrina, Obama toured the devastated areas with Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush and then appeared on CBS?s Face the Nation and ABC?s This Week to blast the federal government?s sluggish response and highlight the racial and economic gaps...
...Tigers would dispute that tag, of course. Like other guerrillas and suicide bombers, they prefer the term ?freedom fighters.? But the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (L.T.T.E.) are proscribed by the U.S. and the U.N. as terrorists, and even without that official sanction, their record in 22 years of civil war with the Sinhalese of southern Sri Lanka speaks for itself. They've assassinated the heads of several branches of the Sri Lankan armed forces, a president, and a former prime minister of India (Rajiv Gandhi); they've blown up half the national airline and held off two national armies...