Posted on 05/25/2010 8:27:37 AM PDT by bs9021
Elena Kagan’s Campus Activism
Bethany Stotts, May 25, 2010
Accuracy in Academia has identified four consecutive years during which Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan worked with the law school’s Lambda group to oppose military recruiting on campus.
Between 2003 and 2007, Dean Kagan not only used her position as Dean to encourage the academic community to protest military recruitment efforts, but was at rallies herself and appears to have coordinated her policy announcements with HLS Lambda, according to student news accounts at that time.
HLS Lambda describes itself as “a social and political student organization dedicated to serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community at Harvard Law School,” according to its website.
According to a September 22, 2003 article by Lauren A.E. Schuker, Dean Kagan sent out a September 20 statement to the HLS community about the law school’s non-inclusion in the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights’ (FAIR) lawsuit against the Department of Defense. “‘Harvard Law School is not a member of this organization, but I share its commitment to nondiscrimination,’ Kagan said in the statement,” reported Schuker for The Harvard Crimson. “‘I look forward to the day when all Americans—regardless of sexual orientation—can serve their country with honor and distinction,’” she quoted Kagan....
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