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OCR Page 1 of 83AALS
SECTION ON
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN
GAY AND LESBIAN
LAW SCHOOLS
LEGAL ISSUES
December 15, 1998
TO: Members and Friends, Section on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues
All Law School Deans and Faculties of the United States
FR:
Executive Committee, AALS Section on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues
RE: On-Campus Military Recruiting - Balancing AALS Rules, Other
Nondiscrimination Policies and the Solomon II Amendment
On September 15, 1998 the Section on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues (Section) of
the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) issued a report with recommendations
(Report) on military recruiting at law schools, and on law school responses to recent
federal legislation known as the "Solomon II" amendment. That amendment threatens to
cut off three specified types of financial aid funds, mainly loans, to students at law
schools that do not provide the military with reasonable access to campus, to students,
and to certain information about students. The amendment therefore poses twin threats—
first, to the ideal of a bias-free education environment and, second, to the availability of
federal financial aid for needy and deserving students. This report ("Supplemental
Report") supplements the original Report to help schools manage proactively these twin
threats.
This Supplemental Report serves three primary purposes. After first summarizing
key points of the original Report, this Supplemental Report analyzes new regulations
governing Solomon II's implementation, which were issued on October 23, 1998, and
concludes that the October 23 changes do not alter our prior understanding of the law's
requirements. Secondly, this Supplemental Report provides and invites new ideas for
amelioration, while also urging schools to consider acting on one recommendation of the
original Report: law schools should review and if necessary revise their career services
policies to ensure compliance with this law and avert unnecessary entanglement with the
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