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...after the Air Force threatened the University last May with the loss of $328 million in federal funding under a 1996 federal statute—known as the Solomon Amendment—compelling universities to grant military recruiters equal access to facilities, the school capitulated and reversed its policy this summer...
Harrison, a member of Lambda’s executive board, said students and faculty have also considered a challenge to the military’s interpretation of the Solomon statute...
...Bagenstos, an assistant professor of law who has not been involved in the Lambda discussions, said he disagreed with the military’s current interpretation of the Solomon Amendment, which mandates that the “degree of access by military recruiters is at least equal in quality and scope to that afforded to other employers...
...while Dean Clark’s candor in describing the difficulty he had making this choice is refreshing, the University should have challenged the Air Force’s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment, the federal statute in question. For the last decade, recruiters were allowed to come to campus when invited by student groups, but the law school did not sanction their visits. This mutually beneficial arrangement simultaneously allowed the law school to uphold its non-discrimination policy and permitted recruiters to maintain a presence on campus. Even temporarily allowing military recruiters to visit while the litigation was underway...
...with a Solomon Amendment sanction hanging over its head, Harvard has blinked and decided to comply with the military rather than risk losing $328 million in annual federal funding. The U.S. government has cracked a financial whip, and Harvard has reflexively jumped...