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...year Harvard Law School (HLS) stands to lose almost $1 million in federal grants due to its ban on military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school's right to uphold its on-campus non-discrimination policy...
...send home money. Not one alien has arrived illegally in the U.S. by way of the N.M.I. Many of the so-called violations are of federal law, yet the U.S. government has very little presence here. We feel that the Federal Government, not the states, has the responsibility to uphold its laws. ANTONIO R. CABRERA Former Secretary of Finance Commonwealth of the N.M.I. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands...
...York University (NYU) Law School is alsoawaiting a government decision on its policies. InDecember the school decided to uphold itsnon-discrimination policy...
...light of the scarcity of reliable evidence in this case, we must resist the temptation to rush to judgment. We as a citizenry ought to follow the admirable example set by members of Congress from both parties and allow the investigation to proceed. Let us uphold the principle of innocent until proven guilty...
Rudenstine will need to keep a vigilant eye trained on potential fundraising excesses....When climbing into bed with moneyed interests, the University should be extremely careful to keep its academic principles independent from its funding sources--a goal that will become more difficult (and more important) to uphold as fundraising is accelerated. Harvard should not sell out to the highest bidder...