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Under Harvard Law School (HLS) policy, employers who recruit through the Office of Career Services must sign a pledge stating that they will treat employees equally regardless of sexual orientation. The armed forces’ “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy mandates the discharge of openly gay service members, and the Pentagon has refused to sign the pledge...
...When HLS was considering reversing its policy against millitary recruiting in the summer of 2002, the school’s administrators met with senior Pentagon officials but concluded that the Defense Department would not allow Harvard to enforce the nondiscrimination policy for military recruiters...
...It’s basically two-year-old news,” said second-year law student Sam P. Tepperman-Gelfant ’00, academic chair of the students civil rights group HLS Lambda...
Civil rights scholar and Harvard Law School (HLS) professor Christopher F. Edley Jr. has been appointed to lead the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, a program that is facing a budget crunch and has recently come under fire for failing to promote diversity among students and faculty members...
President Summers’ letter of Nov. 21 to HLS Lambda rejects a similar request by Harvard Law School students, a majority of the Law School faculty and many other members of the Law School community. HLS faculty members are expected to sue, as have similar faculty groups at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. These suits are well worthwhile, and we support them. But they are no substitute for direct involvement by Harvard as an institution. It is President Summers’ responsibility to defend the Harvard community...