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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court seemed unwilling yesterday to accept a gay rights group’s claim that on-campus military recruitment violates law schools’ free speech rights.And the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 36 law schools challenging the Pentagon’s recruitment policy, may have tossed away its only chance at victory by refusing to advance an argument made by 40 Harvard law professors that initially appeared to attract the support of several justices.The statute in question, known as the Solomon Amendment, allows the Pentagon to withhold federal...
After a discussion tackling the issues of perceived racial self-segregation by student groups and opportunities for low-income students, the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) endorsed John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07 for president and vice president of the Undergraduate Council (UC) yesterday. “We are confident in his leadership abilities,” said Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06, president of BMF and a former UC presidential candidate. “We like how they emphasized...
...professors hopes to wrest a major victory from the jaws of defeat.The June 2000 case, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, could figure prominently in oral arguments this morning as the justices consider a high-profile dispute over campus military recruitment. A coalition of three-dozen law schools, the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), will ask the justices to overturn the so-called Solomon Amendment, a statute first passed by Congress in 1994 that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from universities that limit recruiters’ access to students. Many law schools—including Harvard?...
...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 36 law schools challenging the Pentagon’s recruitment policy, may have tossed away its only chance at victory by refusing to advance an argument made by 40 Harvard law professors that initially appeared to attract the support of several justices...
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the reporting duo best known for their successful pursuit of the Watergate story in the 1970s, discussed anonymous sources and the differing ways that journalists can view their role to a full forum at the Institute of Politics yesterday...