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After the Pentagon’s recent decision to enforce provisions of the Solomon Amendment, a 1994 law that empowers the federal government to withhold funding from schools that don’t allow military recruiters access to on-campus resources, Dean Elena Kagan of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faced a difficult choice. She could compromise the Law School’s anti-discrimination policy by allowing military recruiters onto the HLS campus. Or, she could force the University to forgo $400 million in federal funding (15 percent of Harvard University’s operating budget) to make...
...threatening to withhold its grants, the federal government is implying that it is more important that military recruiters are given on campus resources than it is to support the many humanitarian, medical, and academic efforts that these grants underwrite at Harvard. Remove the politically charged debate surrounding the Solomon Amendment from the equation, and we suspect even staunch Solomon supporters would trade a few extra HLS recruits for better heart disease treatments (just one current project at the Harvard Medical School...
Already, many in the University have responded by filing or promising to file friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Supreme Court, scheduled to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment on December 6, to overturn the law. We commend both University President Lawrence H. Summers and the forty HLS professors who are filing these briefs for their rapid and proactive response...
More, however, can and must be done. Throughout the Solomon controversy, the University has conspicuously resisted joining other schools who are suing the government. If President Summers does not feel comfortable taking this sort of stand, then he and others within the University should seek other ways to show that Harvard is serious about standing behind the civil rights of its students. As a first step, Summers and Dean Kagan could invite retired military officials, lawyers, and members of academia to join in a summit discussing the best means to overturn the military’s “Don?...
...coalition of more than two dozen law schools—known as the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights—which sued the Bush administration in 2003 to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment, argues that the statute violates schools’ free-speech and free-association rights by preventing law schools from expressing their disapproval of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...