[Publib] Money Talks, Principles Walk

[LaDonna Pierce]

They are probably one of the most well endowed universities in the
country but even Yale isn't willing to give up 350 million.

On 10/2/07, Backwage at aol.com <Backwage at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Well, it was getting rather civilized around here, nobody had used the
> perjorative 'Nazi' for a day or so, so I figured it was a good thing that
> this article came out in the NY Times:
>
>
>
> "NEW HAVEN, Sept. 30 — For five years, Yale Law School has fought to
> restrict military recruiters from its job fairs because of the Pentagon's
> policy that bars openly gay or bisexual people from the military. But with
> the federal government threatening to withhold $350 million in grants if the
> university does not assist the recruiters, that fight will all but end on
> Monday.  After an appeals court ruled in favor of the Defense Department on
> Sept. 17, the law school said it would allow recruiters from the Air Force
> and Navy to participate in a university-sponsored job interview program for
> law students on Monday afternoon. For now, the legal battle to stop the
> recruiters is over, said Robert A. Burt, a Yale law professor and the lead
> plaintiff in the case."
>
> Mind you, what the Yale folk are trying to prevent is their law school
> kiddies going into something like the JAG Corps.  It's really rather a joke;
> since there is virtually no chance that any Yale undergrad would go into the
> enlisted ranks, they've got to raise hell about something.  And oh, what a
> life of degradation and suffering it must be to be a military attorney.
> Think of the paper cuts out in the field.
>
> You will notice that Yale's stand on this issue--ostensibly based on
> gay/lesbian discrimination basis but extant prior to that on a number of
> other pretexts--was in the end shaped by the bottom line:  their principles
> melted when it was realized that they'd lose income.  How much would they
> have sold out, say, African-Americans for?
>
> M. McGrorty
>
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