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...alums and students, Summers refused to add Harvard to a long list of law school plaintiffs challenging the shameful Solomon Amendment. Passed in 1996, the law allowed the federal government to withhold funding from institutions that denied the military on-campus recruiting. Harvard, like other schools, had declared the military??s anti-gay stance out of step with its internal non-discrimination policy. When Washington threatened to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard, the Law School was left with little choice but to capitulate. But why not contest the amendment in court? Perhaps Summers didn?...
...inaction. By not pursuing litigation—particularly when so many HLS faculty members urged the University to do so—Harvard sent a clear message that it deemed its nondiscrimination policy and its queer students unworthy of defending. To be sure, Summers has publicly condemned the military??s discrimination, but his words were regretfully empty. Those who would argue that complacently capitulating to the government’s demands is somehow politically neutral ignore the unmistakable message Harvard sent by choosing to defy the wishes of its Faculty. That message was reprehensible...
...School Dean Elena Kagan said yesterday that the school would require all on-campus recruiters to pledge to not discriminate against employees on the basis of sexual orientation. The military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy bars gays and lesbians from serving openly, and the Pentagon has refused to sign the Law School’s pledge...
...year-old Law School policy requires employers who recruit on campus to sign a pledge that they will not discriminate against employees based on sexual orientation. The military??which requires the discharge of openly gay servicemembers under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” protocol—refused to sign the Law School’s pledge. Faced with the threat of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research grants, the Law School modified its nondiscrimination policy in 2002, allowing the military to recruit on campus...
...panel ruled “the government has failed to proffer a shred of evidence” that the Solomon Amendment enhances national security, a prerequisite for the statute’s constitutionality. If anything, the panel argued, the policy “generate[s] ill will toward the military?? and “actually impedes recruitment...