Harvard and Yale Want Federal Money Their Way

The Christian Science Moniter reports that Harvard and Yale want $300 million a year but don't want the U.S military recruiting on campus:

the US Supreme Court Tuesday takes up another hot-button issue in the nation's culture wars. This time it involves law-school protests designed to end discrimination against gays in the military.

At the center of the legal showdown: to what extent military recruiters should have access to law school campuses. The case involves conflicting conceptions of free speech. It also could erode some civil rights laws, which use federal funding to encourage nondiscrimination.


On one side of the current case are a group of law professors and law schools seeking equal treatment of gays interested in serving the nation as members of the armed forces. In protest of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay individuals from the military, the law schools restricted military recruiters from fully participating in school-sponsored employment events.

Military recruiters could still come to campuses, but the law schools' employment placement offices would not assist them. The message was that the schools would not abet military discrimination against some of their own students.

If Harvard and Yale had any moral principles they'd refuse any federal funding and become true private universities.Can someone do that? Yes,look at Hillsdale College.No federal money means no federal control and Hillsdale doesn't have Harvard's endowment.At least James Dobson stands up for his principals.When will Harvard and Yale?