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...practical reality of its policy barring ROTC. Since the bill is aimed squarely at Harvard—seeking to inflict maximum economic consequences for its moral stance—the real question becomes, how much does Harvard value its policy of nondiscrimination? When the Department of Defense, brandishing the Solomon Amendment, threatened to withhold federal grants unless Harvard Law School allowed military recruiters on campus, the University capitulated and gave the recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination clause. It should not do so again. If the Senate approves the bill and President Bush signs it into law, Harvard must...
...measure also strengthens the 1996 Solomon Amendment, under which the Pentagon has threatened to block federal grants to schools that limit military recruiters’ access to students...
...after the Pentagon threatened to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to Harvard under the Solomon Amendment, then-HLS Dean Robert C. Clark granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination pledge...
...House’s action Tuesday came amidst a flurry of litigation challenging the Solomon Amendment. In November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, a 1957 HLS graduate, ruled that the statute is constitutional, but questioned the Pentagon’s insistence that schools waive nondiscrimination requirements for military recruiters...
Lifland’s ruling came in a suit filed by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 20 law schools challenging the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of FAIR, but a majority of the HLS faculty filed a friend-of-the-court brief on FAIR’s behalf in January, arguing that the school was in compliance with the amendment even before Clark granted the Pentagon a waiver...