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Harvard Law School and many of its peers require on-campus recruiters to pledge that they will not discriminate against gay applicants. But the military has refused to sign the pledge. A brief submitted to the high court in September by the former acting solicitor general, Walter E. Dellinger III...
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court seemed unwilling yesterday to accept a gay rights group’s claim that on-campus military recruitment violates law schools’ free speech rights.And the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 36 law schools challenging the Pentagon?...
The presidents of nine leading universities, including Harvard’s Lawrence H. Summers, issued a joint statement yesterday reaffirming their commitment to the “full participation of women” among their faculty ranks. “While considerable progress has been made since 2001, we acknowledge...
The military, which bars gays from serving openly under its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, has refused to sign the pledge. And the Pentagon threatened to cut over $400 million in government grants to Harvard unless the Law School...
The Harvard professors’ friend-of-the-court brief presented a statutory argument that the military already had “equal access” to students because all recruiters were faced with the same nondiscrimination pledge.