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...ROBERT SOLOMON - New York City
After the Third Circuit Court of Appeals declared the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional, Harvard Law School (HLS), parading itself as the paragon of nondiscrimination, ceremoniously banned the military from campus. It should be noted, however, that HLSs application of its hallowed nondiscrimination policy is quite uneven...
After the Third Circuit Court of Appeals declared the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional, Harvard Law School (HLS), parading itself as the paragon of nondiscrimination, ceremoniously banned the military from campus. It should be noted, however, that HLS’s application of its hallowed nondiscrimination policy is quite uneven...
...government has argued that the Solomon Amendment is constitutional since universities are not required to accept federal funding, and therefore do not have to let the military recruiters on campus. This is, however, sheer coercion due to the dependence of private universities on federal funding. Some schools receive upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars from the government, and asking them to forego this money as a cost for implementing non-discriminatory codes is absurd. It is simply not logistically feasible for Harvard to turn down federal funding and continue its cutting-edge research and education...
...military and its Dont ask, dont tell policy off campus. After the 2003 change to the law requiring equal access, 31 law schools joined forces and created FAIR as a means of pursuing legal action against the government. Unfortunately, administrators decided that Harvard, while adamantly opposed to the Solomon Amendment, would not join FAIR or take legal action...