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With regard to your welcome editorial denouncing the Solomon Amendment (“Upping the Ante,” Sept. 28.), it is important to realize that “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a law of Congress and not a...
“But what I’ve heard is that the government will revoke funding towards Harvard if we don’t let them on,” Tejada added, referring to the 1996 Solomon Amendment that allows the Secretary of Defense to deny federal funding to...
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...
Already, many in the University have responded by filing or promising to file friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Supreme Court, scheduled to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment on December 6, to overturn the law. We commend both University President Lawrence H. Summers and...
The battle over the Solomon Amendment is a battle of will as well as a battle of jurisprudence. It was only the Pentagon’s recent reinterpretation of the Solomon Amendment—a reinterpretation informed by political and legal motives—that forced Dean Kagan to acquiesce...