Military Recruiters Met With Protests Over Anti-Gay Policy

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/100405military.htm

Military recruiters have been met with demonstrators on two campuses as students protest 'don't ask, don't tell' the Pentagon's ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces.

At Stanford in Stanford, California, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City, students decried the Solomon Amendment, a law which allows the federal government to withhold funding to universities which deny the military access to students.

Twenty-four law schools went to court last year to fight the law, arguing that the military ban on gays serving openly violated the schools' policies on equal rights.

[northzax]

1. this is a tough call

obviously, the school has a right to bar anyone they want that doesn't meet their code of standards, from recruiting on campus. I put this in the same vein as a Law Firm that won't interview women, or a Consulting Firm that won't hire Jews. Both should be banned, and if the school feels that a certain employer, say the US military, does not want to interview candidates, based on some qualification banned by the school, then they shoudn't be there.

on the other hand, I would not want the school to take money from that law firm or consulting firm either.

So I propose a compromise. Since the military has different employment standards that the rest of the federal government, which it does, and a different personell scheme, you can reasonably state that the military is a different, and discrete employer than the civilian workforce of the Government. So there are two different pots of money in play here, the Military money (of which there is a lot for R&D, especially, and other government money (health research, etc.) If a school takes money from the military, they must allow military recruiters on campus. no question. If a school takes other, non-military money from the government, they can ban the section of the government that actively discriminates from recruiting on campus, but still allow say, the CDC, or the Social Security Administration. that applies to all parts of the School, sorry Harvard Law, but the physics department takes military money, you cannot ban recruiters from campus.

but that would never work, would it?