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Several representatives proposed an amendment that would have shifted more than $16,000 from the committee fund—which funds House Committee subsidies and council-sponsored events like Springfest—to the student groups grants fund.
“I guess this all boils down to determining where our priorities are. Every student group on this campus is woefully underfunded,” said Brian C. Grech ’03, one of the representatives who sponsored the amendment.
The Pentagon review of Harvard’s recruiting policy, which began last December, was authorized under a 1996 law, the Solomon Amendment, that requires schools to give military recruiters equal access to campus facilities.
But now Yale University, which announced Oct. 1 an “interim” suspension of a similar policy prohibiting JAG interviewers from its fall interview series, has pledged to push either in the government or in the courts for a redetermination of whether its restrictions actually violated the...
A 1998 Pentagon review found that allowing the campus student group—the Harvard Law School Veterans Association—to schedule interviews fulfilled the Solomon Amendment access requirements. Because of this prior decision, law professors have said that a challenge to the new, stricter interpretation of the law...