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...years, Harvard Law School (HLS) has required all employers who desire official on-campus recruiting privileges to sign a non-discrimination pledge that includes sexual orientation as a protected category. The military had refused to sign the pledge, and as a result had been barred from campus. In 2002, the Pentagon—invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment—threatened to withhold several hundred million dollars worth of federal funding unless HLS granted military recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination policy. Harvard acquiesced and amended its code, this fall allowing military recruiters on campus...
...First Amendment rights of private institutions to set their own policies and standards. The price of standing up for a principle, for refusing to bow under pressure and condone bigoted hiring practices, should not be millions of dollars in guaranteed federal funding. The 50 members of the HLS faculty—including HLS Dean Elena Kagan—who signed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit challenging the Solomon Amendment deserve praise for recognizing the University’s need to affirm its commitment to bisexual, gay, and lesbian students. Their courage to speak out is admirable...
History will not look kindly on Harvard’s inaction. By not pursuing litigation—particularly when so many HLS faculty members urged the University to do so—Harvard sent a clear message that it deemed its nondiscrimination policy and its queer students unworthy of defending. To be sure, Summers has publicly condemned the military’s discrimination, but his words were regretfully empty. Those who would argue that complacently capitulating to the government’s demands is somehow politically neutral ignore the unmistakable message Harvard sent by choosing to defy the wishes...
Spouting dozens of celebrity stories and reams of statistics, Peter Gammons, the popular baseball commentator, fielded questions from a packed audience yesterday at Harvard Law School (HLS...
Michael Giordiano, a third-year law student and the committee’s president, said that many HLS students look forward to careers in sports and entertainment, but the Law School offers few classes in either field...