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...current law, passed last year as the "Solomon Amendment," allows the government to withhold federal grants, like Stafford Loans and Pell Grants, to law schools that don't comply. The law has put law schools across the country in a predicament: stand by their principles and risk losing federal dollars, or open their campuses to an employer that discriminates against many of their students...
Harvard Law School (HLS) has not been affected by the Solomon Amendment and would not be directly affected by the proposed Campbell-Frank amendment. Military recruiters are not completely banned from campus--though they are prohibited from using HLS' career center--and the Pentagon was apparently satisfied with HLS' policies when it reviewed them last year...
Gerald B.H. Solomon, the now- retired New York Republican representative whoauthored the amendment that now bears his name,disagrees...
...there are institutions willing to acceptthe dollars of the federal government, it seemshypocritical to stiff-arm that branch of thegovernment that protects society," said William R.Teator, a spokesperson for Solomon...
Teator added that Solomon did not intend hislegislation to limit financial aid to students...