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...Army, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Pentagon??€™s Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Marine Corps will be among the 140 organizations represented at the forum inside the Gordon Track and Tennis Center today, according to William Wright-Swadel, who is director of the Office of Career Services...
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...
...policy, homosexuals are prohibited from serving openly in any of the armed services. In the civilian world, this type of discrimination has long been considered unconstitutional; only in the military does this archaic and divisive attitude toward the gay community persist as a matter of protocol. The Pentagon??€™s refusal to alter its position concerning the service of homosexuals in the military is outrageous...
Even more outrageous, however, is the Pentagon??€™s draconian enforcement of a statute that essentially forces academic institutions to condone the suppression of a minority group’s civil rights. By threatening to withhold its grants, the federal government is implying that it is more important that military recruiters are given on campus resources than it is to support the many humanitarian, medical, and academic efforts that these grants underwrite at Harvard. Remove the politically charged debate surrounding the Solomon Amendment from the equation, and we suspect even staunch Solomon supporters would trade a few extra...
...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...