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...Romanian Student Association at MIT, occurred simultaneously with protests in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chisinau, the country’s capital city. “Above all, it’s a collaboration between the students and the people in the Boston community,” said HRA President Rares N. Pamfil ’10. “The organization usually hosts events on campus, and this is something beyond that.” The former soviet state’s Communist Party reportedly won 49 percent of votes on Sunday, April 5, far more than either...
...prevent military recruiters access to a campus or its students. Therefore it would seem that when law schools in Washington go out of their way to cooperate by providing military recruiters with additional assistance beyond mere “access,” their actions are illegal under the HRA, and they can be sued for injunctive relief, damages and even attorneys’ fees...
Using this approach, rather than having the difficult burden of having to prove that a federal statute is unconstitutional, someone bringing an action under the HRA against a law school in the District would have to show only that the Solomon Amendment doesn’t require universities to actively assist and cooperate with military recruiters...
...legal action brought under the HRA could easily persuade law schools in D.C. to stop actively cooperating with the military. Moreover, since most of the area law schools seem to oppose military recruiting in principle, they might be willing—once a formal legal challenge were filed, and they faced the prospect of damages and attorney fee awards—to enter into a consent decree prohibiting their active cooperation with military recruiters...
Harvard’s law students and faculty could help prepare a class action lawsuit to be filed in court on behalf of one or more Washington area law students or law faculty willing to serve as plaintiffs. Alternatively, the HRA permits anyone, regardless of residence or sexual orientation—such as any Harvard law student or professor—to file an administrative complaint to achieve the same goal...