The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in
Rumsfeld v.
FAIR, a
case challenging the
Solomon Amendment, a US federal law that allows the government to cut federal funding to universities that refuse to allow military recruiting on campus. FAIR is a coalition of law schools challenging this law on the basis that the US military's policy of prohibiting
open homosexuals from serving violates the schools'
anti-discrimination policies (see section 6-3). Summing the issue up nicely, the dean of one law school
said of the US military, "If it were a private employer who discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation, race or gender, we wouldn't allow them here on campus." .rm C-SPAN coverage
here.
posted by thirteenkiller
on Dec 7, 2005 -
56 comments
The feel good story of the day. Cupcake Brown, a former prostitute and drug addict who nearly died alone on the streets, knew she would cry yesterday when she graduated from the University of San Francisco law school near the top of her class. She wasn't alone.
posted by msacheson
on May 21, 2001 -
2 comments
$14,000 a year for devout Christians attending "top 5" graduate and professional programs, in order to seed national leadership with believers. An alternative approach is
Ave Maria School of Law, founded by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan expressly because they believe that Christian professional education is essentially impossible in the elite institutions.
posted by MattD
on Sep 17, 2000 -
10 comments
