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After the Pentagon’s recent decision to enforce provisions of the Solomon Amendment, a 1994 law that empowers the federal government to withhold funding from schools that don’t allow military recruiters access to on-campus resources, Dean Elena Kagan of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faced a difficult choice. She could compromise the Law School’s anti-discrimination policy by allowing military recruiters onto the HLS campus. Or, she could force the University to forgo $400 million in federal funding (15 percent of Harvard University’s operating budget) to make...
...suing the government. If President Summers does not feel comfortable taking this sort of stand, then he and others within the University should seek other ways to show that Harvard is serious about standing behind the civil rights of its students. As a first step, Summers and Dean Kagan could invite retired military officials, lawyers, and members of academia to join in a summit discussing the best means to overturn the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy...
...battle over the Solomon Amendment is a battle of will as well as a battle of jurisprudence. It was only the Pentagon’s recent reinterpretation of the Solomon Amendment—a reinterpretation informed by political and legal motives—that forced Dean Kagan to acquiesce. Protest from the country’s most prominent universities will not go unnoticed. But it will take more than friend-of-the-court briefs to undo the law. The University should stop letting other schools fight a battle that the Harvard community clearly cares about and bring its considerable clout...
...school is still in the process of launching a new student information system, Kagan said, and, within five years, it will finish up a major construction project to create more classrooms and student organizing space on the northwest portion of campus...
...remarks, Kagan also announced that the school will host three Supreme Court justices over the next few months, including discussions with Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Antonin Scalia later this month. Justice David H. Souter ’61 will visit the school in November...