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John, I cant tell you how pleased I am to hear that the self-righteous admitted socialists at the Kremlin on the Charles plan to continue their tireless crusade against the Solomon Amendment, which simply allows the government to withhold money to schools that bar military recruiters on campus. The Supreme Court will almost certainly uphold the constitutionality of the measurefor Gods sake the government can withhold federal dollars to just about anyone who does something it does not like. (For example, not fund football and womens basket-weaving equally at colleges, or try to establish a legal drinking...
Wharton Dean Patrick Harker defended the decision to withhold the information about student evaluations in a statement on the school’s website...
After the Pentagon’s recent decision to enforce provisions of the Solomon Amendment, a 1994 law that empowers the federal government to withhold funding from schools that don’t allow military recruiters access to on-campus resources, Dean Elena Kagan of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faced a difficult choice. She could compromise the Law School’s anti-discrimination policy by allowing military recruiters onto the HLS campus. Or, she could force the University to forgo $400 million in federal funding (15 percent of Harvard University’s operating budget) to make...
Even more outrageous, however, is the Pentagon’s draconian enforcement of a statute that essentially forces academic institutions to condone the suppression of a minority group’s civil rights. By threatening to withhold its grants, the federal government is implying that it is more important that military recruiters are given on campus resources than it is to support the many humanitarian, medical, and academic efforts that these grants underwrite at Harvard. Remove the politically charged debate surrounding the Solomon Amendment from the equation, and we suspect even staunch Solomon supporters would trade a few extra...
...mail to students and faculty last night, Kagan wrote that the Pentagon had notified the University this summer that it would withhold most federal grants to Harvard unless the Law School’s career services office gives aid to military recruiters...