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Clement responded affirmatively, adding that if law schools wish to disassociate themselves from the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, they can “help organize student protests...
...mail sent to the Law School community after the Supreme Court’s decision in March, Kagan wrote that she hopes students and professors would “accept the Court’s invitation to express their views clearly and forcefully regarding the military??s discriminatory employment policy...
Student protestors chanted slogans, waved signs, and conducted a “die-in”—lying on the pavement and pretending to be dead—outside of Soldiers Field Friday as part of a protest against the military??s presence at the Career Forum...
...military??s presence on campus has been a source of controversy since April 1969, when anti-war protestors stormed and occupied University Hall. In recent years, the battle over on-campus recruiting has centered on “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the Solomon Amendment, a federal law that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from any university that denies military recruiters access to its campus...
Harvard faced a similar quandary—in a slightly different form—last fall. The Bush administration ordered the University to allow military recruitment on campus—even though the military??s anti-gay policies blatantly violate Harvard’s nondiscrimination code. Administration officials threatened to cut off a half-billion dollars in annual federal funds unless Harvard complied. Harvard bowed to Bush. It sold its soul for $500 million a year...