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This year, however, the Air Force threatened to invoke a 1996 federal statute known as the Solomon Amendment against Harvard. The Solomon Amendment sets forth a series of conditions governing the relationship between universities and the military. If the Department of Defense determines that a university has violated any of these conditions, that university becomes ineligible to receive funding from federal agencies...
...having discovered Harvard’s weakness, the Department of Defense should pursue its advantage. Of the many conditions in the Solomon Amendment for which federal funding can be withheld, one in particular catches the eye: No funds may be provided to an institution of higher education that, in the judgment of the Secretary of Defense (nota bene), “either prohibits, or in effect prevents, the Secretary of a military department from maintaining, establishing, or operating a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps…at that institution...
What a marvelous gift for our conservative, outspoken defense secretary. Harvard’s refusal to allow ROTC units to operate on campus has long been a burr under the military’s saddle, but the Solomon Amendment gives Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld the leverage to remove...
...difficult to say why Harvard’s ROTC policy has not yet been found in violation of the Solomon Amendment. Associate Dean David P. Illingworth ’71 suggests the reason is that Harvard students are able to ride the T to Kendall Square. “It would appear that the College is in compliance with the Solomon Amendment,” he writes in an e-mail. “Harvard students have full access to ROTC at MIT and take advantage of that opportunity...
...opportunities afforded through MIT’s ROTC program do not change the fact that official University policy prohibits the military from “maintaining, establishing or operating” an ROTC unit on the Harvard campus. The policy is, prima facie, a violation of the Solomon Amendment, and as such it is vulnerable to assault from the Pentagon...