Court Upholds Campus Military Recruiting

yahoo ^ | March 06, 2006 | GINA HOLLAND

[Lunatic Fringe]

Already in breaking news.

[HHKrepublican_2]

Wooooooo!! Score one for the team!COUNTRY!

[Chgogal]

Egad! What will Harvard and Yale do? Oh that's right, they'll just recruit more Taliban.

[caisson71]

Let the libs now fish or cut bait. How much are their principles worth? My bet is they go for the money, 100%.

[joesnuffy]

About time American public colleges and Universities acted like Americans....

Even if the 'academia nuts' had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing by those are forced to foot their bills.....

[Servant of the 9]

UNANIMOUSLY

So9

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"College leaders have said they could not afford to lose federal help, some $35 billion a year."

Sure they could. We could use it to pay down the national debt! Or start a new university: Patriot U! The mascot is a minuteman, colors are red white and blue, Judaeo-Christianity is a required class, and all recruiters are not only welcome, but have their own office.

[Gay State Conservative]

9-0 ???

Faculty members of Harvard Law School will be swinging from the end of ropes due to this decision.....imagine how depressing it must be to be a liberal academic right now.....

[Abathar]

Meltdown over at DU central, that high pitch whining sound is their site you hear...

[CDHart]

"Unanimous!" Neat!

Carolyn

[mrsmith]

"The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus"

"This case does not require us to determine when a condition placed on university funding... becomes an unconstitutional condition. It is clear that a funding condition cannot be unconstitutional if it could be constitutionally imposed directly... the First Amendment would not prevent Congress from directly imposing the Solomon Amendment's access requirement, "

[SmoothTalker]

Good. I think any public institution should be forced to accept military recruiters. I think any private school should have the option to accept or reject them but that if they reject them they shouldn't get a cent in government grants or financial aid.

[USNBandit]

This is a victory on several levels. Besides the pain inflicted on the marxist faculties at most universities it shows that our form of government can still work.

Congress passed a law, and the Supreme Court found that law constitutional.

[Nova442]

8-0, just as good. Alito didn't participate in the opinion because he was not on the bench at argument.

[JAWs]

First Brokeback, now this. Not a good day for the gays. As for the college radicals, you take the King's shilling you become the King's man. Don't want Chimpy McHaliburton to have a say in how you run your shoddy utopias? Then get your grubby paws offa my wallets!

[JAWs]

8-0, actually. Don't know who sat out.

[Real Cynic No More]

I think any public institution should be forced to accept military recruiters. I think any private school should have the option to accept or reject them but that if they reject them they shouldn't get a cent in government grants or financial aid

How about adding to that a requirement that graduates with a degree from a university allowing miltary access be given hiring preference over those graduating from universities not allowing military recruiting, on any federal job or for any contractor performing work on government projects?

[Rakkasan1]

YALE: Taliban welcome, our military recruiters not...

ha,ha,ha...

[Born Conservative]

From the NYT:

When the case was argued before the Supreme Court on Dec. 6, Chief Justice Roberts zeroed in on the universities' apparent desire to have it both ways — to show disapproval of the military's treatment of gay people but still leave the federal money spigots open. "What you're saying is, this is a message we believe in strongly, but we don't believe in it to the detriment of $100 million," the chief justice told a university lawyer.