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...original wording of the Solomon Amendment only barred funding to schools that “prohibit” or “in effect prevent” military recruitment on campus. The professors argued that the law did not require Harvard to actively assist recruitment by giving the Pentagon access to OCS resources...
Last October, a majority of the Law School faculty signed a letter urging University President Lawrence H. Summers to “join or initiate” litigation challenging the Pentagon policy. Dershowitz and others had also called for such a lawsuit at a rally in October...
...professors’ brief argued that the school had been in compliance with the Solomon Amendment even prior to Harvard’s 2002 decision to waive its nondiscrimination policy for military recruiters. Before then, the Harvard Law School Veterans Association organized meetings between students and Pentagon officials, but the school’s Office of Career Services (OCS) played no part in the process...
...other words, could well get bloodier. The Pentagon is rushing to train 200,000 Iraqi troops to take over combat duties by next August, but meanwhile the U.S. military is trapped in a nation-building marathon that the Army is ill prepared to carry out. Among some Americans, the prospect of an open-ended U.S. commitment in Iraq has heightened anxieties that manpower shortages may lead the Pentagon to reinstitute the draft. The heat of the presidential campaign has kept the rumors alive, which may prove costly to George W. Bush...
...TIME poll taken before the second debate, 42% of those surveyed said they believe that if Bush is re-elected he will reinstitute the draft, while only 21% believe Kerry would. Pentagon officials, field commanders and both presidential candidates insist a draft is neither necessary nor desirable and that the U.S. can maintain its commitments with an all-volunteer Army. "We're not going to have a draft--period," Bush said in last Friday's debate. Yet speculation about the looming return of conscription has become so rampant that House Republicans last week tried to dispel the rumors by forcing...