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Harvard Law School will actively cooperate with military recruiters this fall, despite the Pentagon??€™s refusal to sign the school’s nondiscrimination pledge, Dean Elena Kagan announced this evening...
Privacy advocates from both inside and outside higher education have made protestations against the government in the wake of the Pentagon??€™s May unveiling of a three-year-old database containing personal information on students nationwide...
Nine privacy-advocacy groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, filed official protests during an official comment period after the Pentagon??€™s announcement. The database was publicly unveiled in the Federal Register—a daily publication in which federal agencies are required to announce rules and proposed regulations...
...ruling declaring the controversial Solomon Amendment unconstitutional is a victory for free speech. The government’s coercion of universities, forcing them to tolerate discrimination of bisexual, gay, and lesbians students on their campuses, was an egregious abuse of power. This ruling is a welcome rebuke to the Pentagon??€™s extortion-style approach to side-stepping non-discrimination policies on private campuses nationwide...
...Harvard Law School (HLS) has required all employers who desire official on-campus recruiting privileges to sign a non-discrimination pledge that includes sexual orientation as a protected category. The military had refused to sign the pledge, and as a result had been barred from campus. In 2002, the Pentagon??€”invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment—threatened to withhold several hundred million dollars worth of federal funding unless HLS granted military recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination policy. Harvard acquiesced and amended its code, this fall allowing military recruiters on campus...