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...last time Harvard was to suffer for Summers’ alleged doggedness. Despite heavy protestations from faculty, alums and students, Summers refused to add Harvard to a long list of law school plaintiffs challenging the shameful Solomon Amendment. Passed in 1996, the law allowed the federal government to withhold funding from institutions that denied the military on-campus recruiting. Harvard, like other schools, had declared the military’s anti-gay stance out of step with its internal non-discrimination policy. When Washington threatened to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard, the Law School was left with...
...University’s reasons for allowing this patently biased policy are chiefly political. The impact of the refunds is insignificant with regards to the ability of UHS to provide monetary support for those choosing to have an abortion; thus, allowing a small sect of the student body to withhold its dollars is easier than facing the inevitable political fallout if Harvard were to bar students from making this symbolic gesture. But saving the University some grief is not a rationale for the policy’s existence. It exclusively favors pro-life students’ moral obligations, while deeming...
...sign a non-discrimination pledge that includes sexual orientation as a protected category. The military had refused to sign the pledge, and as a result had been barred from campus. In 2002, the Pentagon—invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment—threatened to withhold several hundred million dollars worth of federal funding unless HLS granted military recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination policy. Harvard acquiesced and amended its code, this fall allowing military recruiters on campus for the first time in a quarter century despite the government’s explicitly discriminatory...
...Although we prefer not to discuss the details of specific cases, we can say categorically that Harvard does not force its employees to work in unhealthy conditions, nor does it withhold or ignore treatment for work place injuries, nor does it accuse workers of crimes without a solid basis, nor fire them because they exercise their rights to unionize and concerted activity,” he wrote in an e-mail...
There are currently not any incentives in place to ensure students fill out the online forms. But Department Administrator for the Office for Academic Programs Deborah Green said yesterday that in the future, it may be possible to withhold individual grade reports until students fill out their forms...