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Members of Lambda, a Harvard Law School gay rights student group, presented the award during a celebratory banquet capping off a weekend-long conference examining the military’s policy, which bans openly gay and bisexual individuals from serving in the military...
...interview before the banquet, Lambda Co-President Adam R. Sorkin said that his organization was impressed by SLDN’s continued efforts to lift the ban. When SLDN was created in 1993, its mission was to end harassment and discrimination against military personnel that were directly affected by “don’t ask, don’t tell...
...event marked the second time Lambda has given its leadership award to a group battling the military’s prohibition on openly gay servicemembers. Last year, the group recognized Boston College Law School professor Kent Greenfield, the founder of a coalition of law schools that challenged the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. The law requires universities to grant the military access to their campuses in order to receive federal funds...
...which permits the secretary of defense to cut off funding to schools that do not allow recruiters on campus—clearing the way for military recruiters to continue using the Law School’s facilities. If Meehan’s legislation passes, the president of Lambda, Harvard Law’s student gay rights group, said that he believes the number of protests on campus directed at military recruiters would decrease. “I think that the opposition to military recruiting on campus was largely due to the fact that a career in the military wasn?...
...send a copy along to the New York Times for good measure. One amicus brief from a group of law professors is not enough.Students, too, should focus their efforts on the real wrong that is being perpetuated by Solomon, not on auxiliary concerns. We applaud the efforts of Lambda, the Law School’s gay rights activist group, to protest DADT purposefully and effectively, and we wish that more undergraduates would follow Lambda’s lead. Regrettably, some undergraduates have chosen instead to hold aimless blanket protests of the military at large, including the inane recent...