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...will not, in fact, be easy for the commission to change Aspin's hit list, which could be bad news for Charleston. The criteria to be applied are strict, beginning with the military value of the bases to be closed, going on to potential costs and savings and ending with the impact on local communities. The military services have supplied the commission with hundreds of pages of analysis and projections. Aspin says his base-closing plan will save $3.1 billion annually beginning in the year 2000, while eliminating 57,000 civilian jobs...
...subtract from the Pentagon's proposed list of 31 major bases, the commission must find "substantial deviation" from the Defense Department's calculations on the criteria. That is, the commission would have to show the Pentagon made major mistakes...
After all, this soundly falls to pass his criteria for intervention in the status quo. Vital to the national interest of the majority? Gays and lesbians are a definitive minority in the human population. Supported by the people and the Congress? Poll after poll says no. A last resort? The American military system has functioned smoothly enough under the policy in the 1980s and 1990s to effectively accomplish set objectives. Prejudice and anger would most likely endanger openly gay soldiers as well...
...Women often define new fields, so they don't fit in existing fields in any standard way," says Johnson. Others echo her concern that narrowly defined search criteria can exclude women whose areas of expertise straddle several disciplines or embody new viewpoints...
...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles says that although he strongly supports affirmative action and equal access for women candidates, no reexamination of the tenure process is planned. "I don't believe we could or should change the criteria for tenure," he says. "I don't think we could or should change the quality of our faculty...