Word: solomons
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...which we share. It declares angrily that military recruiters have been “welcomed back with open arms throughout Harvard’s campus,” but it fails to mention that the U.S. Supreme Court forced Harvard’s hand when it upheld the Solomon Amendment last December. (The alternative, of course, would be to forgo hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research funds, which would force Harvard to lay off legions of workers whom the writers of the Guide seek to protect.) And it portrays former University President Lawrence H. Summers as an agent...
...diarrhea attacks, especially after the rainy season when sewage seeps into water supplies. "If the students get sick," says teacher Tesfaye Birhanu, "they can't learn their lessons and think freely." Until recently, the four toilets shared by Gafft's 1,266 pupils were filthy, and girls like Genet Solomon avoided using them. "Before, I would get sick once a month," says Solomon, 12. Then the school built three simple pit latrines in cinder-block cubicles. A sanitation club began encouraging students to wash their hands after using the toilet and before meals, a simple way of reducing the risk...
Military recruiters returned to Harvard’s campus last week, enabled by a March Supreme Court decision that upheld the Solomon Amendment and forced universities to choose between granting military recruiters access or forfeiting hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research funds. For clear financial reasons, picking the latter option would have been an irresponsible move for Harvard. Nevertheless, the University can, and should, do more to oppose the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, which has damaging and reprehensible effects on both the military and the students it is recruiting.Universities have...
...March decision upholding the Solomon Amendment—a law mandating that universities receiving federal funds allow military recruiters on their campuses—Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76 wrote that “the Solomon Amendment regulates conduct, not speech. It affects what law schools must do—afford equal access to military recruiters—not what they...
Legal challenges to the Solomon Amendment were dismissed by a unanimous Supreme Court in March. Harvard has chosen to allow recruiters on campus rather than forgo the more than $400 million in federal funds that the University receives annually...