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Leatherman said the fact that Rumsfeld v. FAIR does not directly address the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which forbids open homosexuals from serving in the military, makes the case insignificant to the larger goals of the gay rights movement...
...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 36 law schools challenging the Pentagon’s recruitment policy, may have tossed away its only chance at victory by refusing to advance an argument made by 40 Harvard law professors that initially appeared to attract the support of several justices...
Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing on free-speech, not statutory, grounds...
...Souter appeared to have few allies in this case. “Only Justice Souter is a very clear vote for the First Amendment argument” offered by FAIR, Tribe said...
This fall’s successful Harvard State Fair and Harvard-Yale pep rally shared one crucial ingredient: support from the Dean’s Office.Though the Undergraduate Council (UC) contributed to the planning and funding of the pep rally, the event was thrown in conjunction with many student groups and the Dean’s Office, in what is increasingly becoming the model for large on-campus social events.And as the Dean’s Office devotes a growing amount of time and resources to the events, the UC is more and more divided over the question...