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Harvard Law School will aid military recruiters??in violation of the school’s 27-year-old nondiscrimination policy—following a Supreme Court ruling that forced the school to choose between assisting the Pentagon or forgoing over $400 million in federal funds to Harvard.In an e-mail to students and professors yesterday, Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced the decision to “provide Career Services assistance to the military, as the School does to non-discriminating employers.”Until 2002, the school required all employers to sign a nondiscrimination pledge...
...These recruiters??often recent college graduates—have facebook.com accounts themselves, allowing them to check profiles of job applicants...
Lambda Co-President Jeffrey G. Paik ’03 said that if FAIR loses the case, Law School administrators must show their disapproval of military recruiters??or else they could face persistent protests...
...troubled relationship between Harvard and the military. By all accounts, the Supreme Court is ready to uphold the controversial law, permitting the Pentagon to suspend all federal funding to universities that deny “equal access” to military recruiters. Although Harvard has periodically suspended and reinstated recruiters?? access in the past, based on the law’s status in the appeals system, the Supreme Court’s expected ruling will add a note of finality to the oft-tumultuous relationship...
...most overt gestures of animosity between Harvard and the military. It will not mean that the animosity itself—which has been so damaging to the national interest—will disappear. Reconciliation will be no easy task, but we should try. Harvard can use military recruiters?? presence on campus to spark two important discussions: first, on the military’s history and role; second, on the acceptance of homosexuals in the armed services. Both of these discussions should occur with mutual respect (and perhaps Congress-writing campaigns). In return, the military should make...