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...government shouldn’t use the power of the purse strings to force educational institutions to renounce their most foundational principles,” Dean Elena Kagan told protesters Friday...
...Kagan was one of 54 Harvard Law School faculty members who signed a friend-of-the-court brief in January backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 20 law schools suing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and five other Bush cabinet members to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan did something courageous last week: She spoke out against the first appearance of military recruiters on the Harvard campus in decades, condemning their policy of intolerance toward openly gay and lesbian soldiers. In a school-wide e-mail, Kagan wrote that the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell policy” is a “fundamental wrong” that “tears at the fabric of our own community because some of us cannot, while others can, devote their professional...
...only did Kagan demonstrate resolve with her outspokenness, but her words were matched with actions. In January, Kagan and 50 other Harvard Law School (HLS) professors filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 20 law schools challenging the constitutionality of the Defense Department’s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. For years the Amendment, which was introduced in 1996, had never posed a problem for Harvard, which has a long-standing policy of requiring employers to sign an anti-discrimination pledge in order to recruit on campus...
While the law school had virtually no choice but to bow to the military’s demands—refusing to grant an exemption from the non-discrimination policy would have cost Harvard $412 million the last fiscal year alone—Kagan took the right stance by supporting FAIR’s efforts to prevent the government from strong-arming academia. The military’s discriminatory policies are immoral, and the U.S. government ought to be held to the same standard as any other employer attempting to gain recruitment access...