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...wouldn’t have stayed in,” she says. INSIDE THE YARDThe female cadets often highlight the idealism that they see in military service. At Harvard, however, discussion of the military is usually negative, and this frustrates them. Media coverage of ROTC always focuses on the Solomon Amendment and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which requires homosexuals in the military to hide their orientation. The women say these controversial policies have nothing to do with their ROTC experience. ROTC has been banned from the Harvard...
...Monday, the Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold the Solomon Amendment, a 1994 Congressional law that threatens to withhold all federal funding for colleges and universities that refuse to offer military recruiters––who are prohibited from enlisting openly gay men and women––equal access to campus recruiting resources. This decision, while legally sound, is nonetheless a great disappointment, as it will force Harvard Law School (HLS) to acquiesce to an employer’s willful violation of the school’s nondiscrimination policy or forgo over $400 million...
Even if Harvard had chosen to forfeit over $400 million in federal funds this week in order to preserve the Law School’s nondiscrimination policy, Congress still could have forced the school to let military recruiters on campus.The Solomon Amendment, initially passed by Congress in 1994, gives schools a choice: take federal funds and let military recruiters on campus, or forgo the money to protest the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.But according to Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts...
...discussed his platform before a student gathering in the Kirkland Senior Common Room last night. Barrios, who is the first openly gay Hispanic Mass. state senator, addressed issues ranging from violent crime prevention to the gubernatorial race to the Supreme Court’s recent Solomon Amendment decision. Barrios, who will face another Democrat, Gerry Leone, in the district attorney race, advocated reforms focusing not just on winning convictions but on preventing future crimes. “It’s not just about cleaning up the mess by putting people behind bars,” he said...
...policy, refuses to sign the pledge.In her message yesterday, Kagan also encouraged students to demonstrate against the presence of recruiters. Her statement came one day after Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 ruled that “law schools remain free under the [Solomon Amendment] to express whatever views they may have on the military’s congressionally mandated employment policy, all the while retaining eligibility for federal funds.”The Solomon Amendment, initially passed in 1994 and most recently updated last year, says that schools receiving federal funds must grant...