Harvard Law to Bar Military Recruiters

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041201/ap_on_re_us/military_recruiters_harvard

Harvard Law School will return to a policy that keeps the military from recruiting on campus in the wake of a federal court decision allowing colleges and universities to bar recruiters without fear of losing federal money.

Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan said the decision, effective Tuesday, will allow the school to enforce its nondiscrimination policy without exception, "including to the military services."

Harvard had forbidden any recruiter from campus — military or otherwise — that couldn't sign off on the school's nondiscrimination policy. Harvard, like other schools, said the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was discriminatory, because it forbids overt gays and lesbians from serving in the armed forces.

In 2002, the Pentagon told Harvard and other schools that the government would begin enforcing a law, called the Solomon Amendment, which permits the Defense Department to deny funds to colleges and universities that restrict military recruiting or ROTC on campus.

[prayin4rain]

1. Cool.

[el_gato]

2. I doubt if there are that many recruiters on the Harvard campus

these recruiters would be really pissed if they were barred from recruiting in high schools that are in poor neighborhoods.

[Rush1184]

4. Good Point...

What harvard grad is going to throw away their harvard education for the military. This was a political statement from the university, but it was a statement that needed to be made.

[cyn2]

3. return to the good old days

When I attended U of Pennsylvania in the late '60s, ROTC was barred from campus.

[imenja]

5. The military isn't for the privileged. They have "other priorities."

While I understand and applaud the principle of this case, there is another issue here. Keeping military recruiters out of prestigious law schools like Harvard and Georgetown underscores the fact that the privileged are distanced from the military, the war, and the defense of the nation. Those responsibilities fall upon young men and women without educational opportunities--recruited in high schools and shopping malls. The law school graduates instead make the policies that end up killing others.

[MichiganVote]

6. Oh now there's a shocker.

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7. kick

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