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Harvard Law ends its ban on military - Emotional letter cites loss of funding
Boston Globe ^ | August 27, 2002 | Marcella Bombardieri

Posted on 08/27/2002 2:24:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Harvard Law School has lifted its longstanding ban on military recruiting on its campus, saying that it had ''no reasonable alternative'' in the face of the Department of Defense's stepped-up enforcement of a six-year-old law.

The law school's ban, a protest of the military's policy against gays serving openly in the armed forces, risked costing Harvard University an annual $328 million in federal funding, according to law school Dean Robert C. Clark.


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KEYWORDS: dontask; donttell; harvard
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1 posted on 08/27/2002 2:24:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Glad to see Harverd enthusiastically supporting our military and its men and weman.
Money money money money......
2 posted on 08/27/2002 2:31:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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I'll cry tomorrow...

Imal

3 posted on 08/27/2002 2:33:10 AM PDT by Imal
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Wow! It's news to me that the super-endowed Harvard University receives 16% of its operating income from the government. I say cutting them off is plenty good for them!
4 posted on 08/27/2002 2:38:47 AM PDT by nightdriver
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Our tax money is beginning to serve US once again!

Those universities really are the dregs for exploiting us for our money while expressing such utter contempt for us.

That is the attitude of adolescents terrified of having to grow up. It's time to force them to grow up, regardless of their whiny excuses.
5 posted on 08/27/2002 2:44:47 AM PDT by WaterDragon
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To: Joe Boucher; nightdriver; Imal; All
Lambda board member Lindsay Harrison said last night that the group will protest the Defense Department policy by, for example, filling all interview slots with its members when military recruiters come to the campus.

Bump!

6 posted on 08/27/2002 2:48:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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HLS Lambda
7 posted on 08/27/2002 2:50:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Matthew S. DelNero is a Litigation Technical Support Specialist at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Boston, Massachusetts. At Mintz Levin, Matthew is focused on improvements to the Litigation Section’s internal research capabilities. As part of that process, he has worked extensively with DOCS Open. Matthew graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1998. As a Junior at the university, he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. Matthew begins his legal studies at Harvard Law School in September, 1999.

8 posted on 08/27/2002 2:53:27 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
......like a rollin stone
9 posted on 08/27/2002 2:54:35 AM PDT by agitator
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To: kcvl
.... internal research capabilities

??????

10 posted on 08/27/2002 2:57:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
News Releases 08/01/2002

New lawsuit charges Methodist Children's Home uses tax dollars to discriminate in employment and to indoctrinate foster youth in religion

Georgia taxpayers, including fired lesbian counselor and Jewish psychotherapist denied job, sue United Methodist Children's Home of Decatur, Georgia in latest controversy over government funding of religious organizations.

(Atlanta and New York Thursday, August 1, 2002) - A new lawsuit challenging public funding of a religious organization was filed yesterday in Georgia, charging the United Methodist Children's Home (the Home) in Decatur with using state tax dollars to discriminate in employment and to indoctrinate foster youth in religion. Seven Georgia taxpayers, including a lesbian youth counselor and a Jewish psychotherapist who were denied the right to work at the Home for religious reasons, are filing the lawsuit to stop Georgia from funding the Home unless it changes its practices. The case is the latest controversy in the national debate over government funding of religious organizations.

Represented by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (Lambda Legal), the plaintiffs charge that, despite receiving 40% of its budget from the State of Georgia, the Home will only hire Christians, fired a lesbian counselor because her sexual orientation conflicted with the Home’s religious teachings, and refused to hire a highly qualified psychotherapist because he is Jewish. The lawsuit also alleges that the Home requires its staff to provide services to lesbian and gay youth, and other youth, based on its own religious beliefs rather than on sound professional practices. For example, the Home instructs its staff that lesbian and gay youth should be sent into potentially dangerous intervention therapy to undermine the youth’s sexual orientation. In addition, all youth at the state-funded facility are required to attend Methodist services, regardless of their religious beliefs.

After all, it's ALL ABOUT THEM!!! Forget the children that it helps...they're the ONLY ONES with any "civil rights", don't you know?!

11 posted on 08/27/2002 3:04:37 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Your tax dollars at work...

Harvard University Resources
Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, a resource for Harvard alumni, faculty, and staff.

Queer Harvard, undergraduate and graduate school resources.

Have a link you'd like to add? Email Lindsay Harrison with the address and a brief description.

12 posted on 08/27/2002 3:10:53 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The Air Force! way to go, flyboys...whoever would of thunk it? Wonder if the four services drew straws to see who would strike first..or maybe if the USAF general counsel got rejected by HLS....
13 posted on 08/27/2002 3:12:30 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It's interesting to see that accepting Caesar's coin has its price for libs as well as for conservatives . . .
14 posted on 08/27/2002 3:13:43 AM PDT by Neanderthal
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
''We think the Bush administration has taken a very heavy-handed approach to enforcing policy.''

Finally somebody showed some really havy duty "Steel huevos" to those Harvard commies...How sweet it is(to see them crying), to paraphraze the great "Jackie Gleason"

The chickens are coming home to roost...Sounding Machavellian, I do enjoy their hands wringing, to be honest with you...finally somebody found a way to finally curb some of their communist auctions, and it is a delight to see them squirm...gosh I love "W"'s team...

15 posted on 08/27/2002 3:15:50 AM PDT by danmar
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Those are our planes now.
16 posted on 08/27/2002 3:17:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Now, if they would just cut off funding for any law school that turns out lawyers...
17 posted on 08/27/2002 3:22:44 AM PDT by logos
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Sing along now: Money Money Money.....Monnnn-eyy!

Now that we have determined what you are, it remains merely to set a price. Those Hahhvad Deans are men of principles.

18 posted on 08/27/2002 3:25:12 AM PDT by Movemout
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"....... To say that this decision is just about money trivializes the significance these funds have on students' educations, faculty careers, and scientific research that can lead to cures to life-threatening illnesses and debilitating diseases."

When a liberal tells you "...it is not just about the money", IT IS ABOUT THE MONEY!!!

19 posted on 08/27/2002 3:25:33 AM PDT by albee
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Sing along now: Money Money Money.....Monnnn-eyy!

Now that we have determined what you are, it remains merely to set a price. Those Hahhvad Deans are men of principles.

20 posted on 08/27/2002 3:26:12 AM PDT by Movemout
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