Yale Law, Newly Defeated, Allows Military Recruiters

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: New York Times

By THOMAS KAPLAN
Published: October 1, 2007

NEW HAVEN, Sept. 30 — For five years, Yale Law School has fought to restrict military recruiters from its job fairs because of the Pentagon’s policy that bars openly gay or bisexual people from the military. But with the federal government threatening to withhold $350 million in grants if the university does not assist the recruiters, that fight will all but end on Monday.

After an appeals court ruled in favor of the Defense Department on Sept. 17, the law school said it would allow recruiters from the Air Force and Navy to participate in a university-sponsored job interview program for law students on Monday afternoon. For now, the legal battle to stop the recruiters is over, said Robert A. Burt, a Yale law professor and the lead plaintiff in the case.

“The judges who hold office at the moment disagree with us,” Professor Burt said. “We must wait for history to vindicate our position.”

At question is a statute called the Solomon Amendment, which allows the federal government to withhold funds from universities that do not extend the same welcome to military recruiters as they do to other recruiters....

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/nyregion/01yale.html

[Squatch]

1. The next POTUS' first DoD-related act should be to repeal DADT

What a dumb, dumb law.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Woudn't doing that revert the law to what it was before DADT, which has

that gays were not allowed to serve at all?

[Squatch]

8. OK...that's not what I meant.

I mean to repeal any disqualifiers to military service for sexual orientation.

[Jed Dilligan]

2. I guess the military is feeling the need

for Ivy League lawyers right about now...

[C_U_L8R]

3. Yale should close Skull & Bones

and do the world a favor.

(not tp mention returning Geronimo's bones to his family)

[KamaAina]

12. S&B is not officially a part of Yale

it is actually controlled by the shadowy "Russell Trust Association".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones#Asset_Management_.26_Financial_Associations

The Russell Trust Association is the corporate parent for the Skull and Bones society.

In 1943, by special act of the Connecticut state legislature, its trustees were granted an exemption from filing corporate reports with the Secretary of State, which is normally a requirement. :tinfoilhat:

edit: Thus, Yale couldn't close S&B if it wanted to.

[Danieljay]

4. Anyone at Yale stupid enough to sign up shouldn't BE at Yale. Besides, if you can afford

Yale, you don't fit the mold of a recruit anyway.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. you mean, like John Kerry?

.

[Danieljay]

11. Perhaps some clarification is in order. This time, this war, this commander in chief.

all due respect to John Kerry.

[HERVEPA]

6. NYU lost the same case in the Supreme Court

a few years ago. I thought it was already settled law?

[Marrah_G]

9. They should surround the table with GBLT students

all of them asking to join up while being openly gay. They would pack up and leave before long, besides, students who will have a degree from Yale don't join up in droves.

[KamaAina]

10. Oh SNAP! That's even better than my plan

which involves hanging a huge banner behind and over their table that reads "Warning: These recruiters do not comply with Yale policy regarding non-discrimination against GLBT students."

K-A
Y'85 (undergrad)

[old guy]

13. Make them set up their booth in a basement boiler room

[Orsino]

14. ...but Yale is obviously feeling a bigger need. n/t