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...between the short-term use of the popular painkiller Vioxx and severe heart problems.HMS Associate Professor of Medicine J. Michael Gaziano’s testimony this week in the New Jersey Superior Court broke from the published work of two of his colleagues, Assistant Professor of Medicine Daniel H. Solomon and Professor of Medicine Jerome L. Avorn.Avorn said that he could find no explanation for Gaziano’s ideas, as expressed in court. “You’d have to ask him that yourself,” said Avorn. “The evidence is incontrovertible. Merck...
This year, our semi-annual exchange might take place in person. The Pentagon has finally threatened to enforce of the Solomon Amendment, a law passed in 1995 that allows the Secretary of Defense to revoke Department of Defense research contracts and grants to schools that bar military recruiters from campus. Initially, the law had little effect, since colleges, law schools, and business schools received precious little in the way of military research grants and could sacrifice funding to protect their gay and lesbian students. Over the years, subsequent amendments and interpretations have expanded the scope of the Solomon Amendment...
...legal experts on opposing sides of the Solomon Amendment controversy converged at Harvard Law School (HLS) yesterday to debate the constitutionality of the 1994 statute.Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School, joined John C. Eastman, a professor at Chapman University School of Law for a debate in Pound Hall sponsored by the HLS Federalist Society.The Solomon Amendment gives the Secretary of Defense the authority to block federal funds to any university that “either prohibits, or in effect prevents” military recruitment on campus. Its constitutionality will be the subject of Rumsfeld v. Forum...
...complicity in bigotry is one of the most important human rights issues of our generation,” Dershowitz said. “We simply cannot accept a standard which tells us we must compromise our morality in the interests of money.”The 1994 Solomon Amendment allows the Secretary of Defense to bar federal funding from universities that do not permit military recruiters on their campuses. Representatives from the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Army were scheduled to hold an information session on campus yesterday.Jeffrey G. Paik ’03, president...
...don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, according to a press release.In a reversal of its longstanding policy to stay out of the legal battle, the University joined a friend-of-the-court brief last month opposing the 1994 Solomon Amendment, which permits the Secretary of Defense to block funding from universities that refuse to allow military recruiters on campus. But Sorkin said that move was “not enough.”“There needs to be a visible and concerted effort by the University to really do something about...