Word: hls
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Until last month, HLS had prevented military recruiters from officially recruiting law students on campus due to the military’s discriminatory ban on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people serving openly in the U.S. military. When faced with the choice of either opening HLS to military recruiters—and abrogating the University’s nondiscrimination policy—or losing 16 percent of the University’s annual operating budget, HLS reluctantly chose money over principle...
Circumventing an open discussion of HLS policy with the students whom it will directly affect, the Air Force waited until the very end of May—after law students had already left for the summer—to send the letter threatening to cut Harvard’s funding. That letter listed a deadline for HLS’s decision as July—long before the students return in the fall. This clever timing allowed the Air Force to bully HLS while no one was around to defend the compromise that was in place, making these dealings particularly...
Moreover, recruiting on the HLS campus will likely make no difference in the number of Harvard students who sign up for the military. Instead, the main effect of the change is in revealing the military’s true priorities of squelching any opposition to its blatant and unjustifiable discrimination. And don’t think the Air Force is in such desperate need of personnel that it must recruit here. All branches of the service are projected to meet their recruiting goals this year, and there is no desperate shortage of military personnel...
...mailed HLS Dean of Students Suzanne Richardson to let her know about his situation, he said, and he credits her with helping make his term possible...
...received permission to enroll as late as Sept. 30, and meanwhile he’s trying to enroll in a British law school. He said HLS officials have told him he will receive credit for his work abroad so he can graduate with his class in June...