Fighting against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.A MARCH SUPREME COURT DECISION UPheld the military's right to recruit on college campuses, ending one legal battle, Rumsfeld Rums·feld , Donald born 1932. American public official who was the youngest U.S. secretary of defense (1975-1977) when appointed by President Gerald Ford, and was reappointed in 2001 by President George W. Bush. v. FAIR. The decision opened another front in the combat against the government's stance on gays in the military, which violates many IHEs' discrimination policies. Several law school deans and administrators say that they must now protest the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on a broader scale. The court upheld the Solomon Amendment The Solomon Amendment, 50 U.S.C.A. App. § 462(f), is federal legislation that denies male college students between the ages of 18 and 26 who fail to register for the military draft (under the Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C.A. App. § 451 et seq. , which requires colleges and universities to allow military recruiting on campus if they want to receive federal monies. "As long as 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is on the books, the underlying problem will continue to exist," says Kent Greenfield Greenfield, town (1990 pop. 18,666), seat of Franklin co., NW Mass., at the confluence of the Deerfield and Green rivers, near their junction with the Connecticut; settled 1686, set off from Deerfield and inc. 1753. , a professor at Boston College's Law School and founder of FAIR, which stands for Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights The Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights is an association of American law schools seeking to overturn the Solomon Amendment. It has filed suit in a case, Rumsfeld v. FAIR, heard by the Supreme Court on December 6 2005. On March 6 2006, FAIR lost the case. . FAIR member New York Law School History New York Law School is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. The Law School was founded in 1891 by a group of faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore William Dwight, a prominent figure in the has only allowed the military on campus twice: once after the 9/11 attacks, since the school sits mere blocks from the World Trade Center, and once following threatened suspension of student financial aid. "At this point it's a tactics discussion," notes Dean Richard Mataras. Campus protests and barring military recruiting will be considered, he says. |
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