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Harvard Law School (HLS) will allow school-sanctioned visits by military recruiters, after the Air Force informed the school that keeping a longstanding prohibition on such recruiting might cost Harvard $328 million in federal funding...
...move, detailed to the school in an Aug. 23 memo by HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, came after the Air Force determined in May that the school’s ban on employers who fail to adhere to a nondiscrimination policy was not in compliance with a federal statute...
Congress required in a 1996 law—commonly known as the Solomon Amendment—that federal funding be withheld from schools that do not provide adequate access to military recruiters. Until May the military had not found HLS in violation of the statute...
Military recruiters have been able to gain access to the Law School’s campus for the past several years by the invitation of the Harvard Law School Veterans Association, an HLS student group. An Air Force review in 1998 had found that this mechanism provided the military adequate access to the Law School and put the University in compliance with the Solomon Amendment...
...School and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences depend on government grants to help develop new technologies, fight diseases and advance our understanding of the world. But this summer the military threatened to cut off that funding—all $328 million—because Harvard Law School (HLS) took a stand against discrimination...