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...Supreme Court’s anticipated ruling on the Solomon Amendment will likely end one era of a troubled relationship between Harvard and the military. By all accounts, the Supreme Court is ready to uphold the controversial law, permitting the Pentagon to suspend all federal funding to universities that deny “equal access” to military recruiters. Although Harvard has periodically suspended and reinstated recruiters’ access in the past, based on the law’s status in the appeals system, the Supreme Court’s expected ruling will add a note of finality...
...homosexual participation—particularly the nebulous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy—Harvard hardened its line by ending all official funding for the ROTC. One year later, Congress passed into law the Solomon Amendment...
Both of these latter acts—the passage of the Solomon Amendment and the end to ROTC funding—are characteristic of an embittered and misunderstood relationship between the military and universities like Harvard. For its part, Harvard’s opposition to the military’s policy towards homosexuals should not amount to a total exile of all recruiters and ROTC cadets; by denying access to its exceptional pool of lawyers, doctors, scientists, and soldiers, the University discredits the national importance of the military and refuses it important resources. This is not to say that Harvard...
...similar fashion, the Solomon Amendment is a heavy-handed reaction to a genuine disagreement of institutional values. But its most dangerous repercussion is its misconstrual of the role universities play in society. By conditioning federal funding on compliance with military recruitment, the Pentagon makes federal funding seem like a reward. This perpetrates the image of federal grants as a one-sided benefit—that Harvard receives a large sum of taxpayer money essentially for free. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Harvard indeed receives from the government—to the tune of over $400 million...
Even if the statutory argument offered by Dellinger and the Harvard professors prevails—which it might not—Congress could respond by passing an more stringent version of the Solomon Amendment...