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...nondiscrimination policy explains that it is committed to “equal opportunity for all persons on the basis of individual merit” without regard to characteristics such as race or sexual orientation. While HLS invokes this policy in its arguments for banning the military from campus for its (wrongful, I would say) discrimination against gays, it apparently does not see any problem hosting the many law firms that specify that they are recruiting minority first-year students only—strongly inferring that non-minority first-years should wait until next year to have a shot...
This hypocrisy directly contradicts the plain text of the policy. So much for equal opportunity on the basis of merit without regard to race...
...term ‘Asian American’ encompasses so many different ethnic groups that you can’t just blanket all the groups and assume everyone is equal,” said Sarah L. Paiji ’06, co-president of the AAA. “Southeast Asians generally tend to be more socioeconomically disadvantaged...
...Clinton in 1994, requires universities receiving federal funding to allow military recruiters on campus, even in spite of potential conflict with universities anti-discriminatory policies. The law has been contested by both sides over the last decade, including a 2003 congressional movement that required schools to give military recruiters equal access to the students, and the 2004 appeal that declared the law unconstitutional. We see it as a necessary step for the Supreme Court to grant certiorari to Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutand Rights (FAIR), and we hope that they remain consistent with lower courts in declaring...
Since 1994, several universities have done everything within their power to keep the military and its Dont ask, dont tell policy off campus. After the 2003 change to the law requiring equal access, 31 law schools joined forces and created FAIR as a means of pursuing legal action against the government. Unfortunately, administrators decided that Harvard, while adamantly opposed to the Solomon Amendment, would not join FAIR or take legal action...