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...editorial “Fight The Air Force,” (Sept. 9) the Crimson Staff describes Dean Robert C. Clark??s decision to allow military recruiting as a “necessary but unfortunate resolution to a situation that could have severely diminished the University’s ability to carry out its mission...
...School did not meet the Solomon Amendment’s requirements and threatened to “forward this matter to the Office of the Secretary of Defense with a recommendation of funding denial,” according to the May 29 Air Force letter cited in Clark??s memo...
...while Dean Clark??s candor in describing the difficulty he had making this choice is refreshing, the University should have challenged the Air Force’s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment, the federal statute in question. For the last decade, recruiters were allowed to come to campus when invited by student groups, but the law school did not sanction their visits. This mutually beneficial arrangement simultaneously allowed the law school to uphold its non-discrimination policy and permitted recruiters to maintain a presence on campus. Even temporarily allowing military recruiters to visit while the litigation was underway...
University President Lawrence H. Summers also lost an opportunity to show a strong commitment to diversity and nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by remaining essentially silent on this issue. While Summers ultimately endorsed Clark??s decision, he issued no statement expressing his regret at having to comply with these regulations, even though the issue impacted the entire University. His silence is particularly troubling because it shows that while he has been working closely with the military—participating in a recruitment video and expressing his uneasiness with ROTC’s peculiar funding arrangement...
...wish to comment on Harvard’s recent decision to allow military recruiters onto the law school campus (News, “Law School Will Allow Official Recruiting Visits by Military,” Aug. 26). I was saddened to read of Law School Dean Robert C. Clark??s anguished letter in which he struggled to explain why he reluctantly allowed the recruiters to return. However, I am not upset with the military’s heavy-handedness in this matter. Instead, I am ashamed to discover that Harvard has sold out. Simply put, Harvard has refused...