"I think the military knows better than to pick that fight [with Harvard]," a spokesman for the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, a litigant in a legal dispute with the Pentagon over access to campuses by military recruiters, boasted months before the Supreme Court handed down its ruling today. The U.S. military, afraid of Harvard? Taking on Nazis is one thing, but for sheer ability to inflict fear and intimidation upon the enemy nothing beats a battallion of egghead professors clad in tweed jackets, speaking with phony English accents, and threatening the enemy with theories and postulates. Harvard profs roam Dunster, JFK, Brattle, and Bow Streets, protected only by the thin armor of their Saabs and Volvos, spoiling for fights. No, the U.S. military cowers at such an enemy!
Fantasy scenario aside, the U.S. military took on Harvard, and dozens of other schools that played follow the leader, and defeated them in the courtroom (There's no telling if Harvard would be able to even the score on the battlefield.).
Colleges and universities regularly dole out thousands of dollars for such disreputable characters as Angela Davis, Rodney Coronado, and Laura Whitehorn, and Susan Rosenberg to speak. Even though the military pays hundreds of millions of dollars to colleges and universities through research grants and contracts, schools regularly prevent military representatives from speaking to even a few students on their campuses. No more. The Supreme Court today unanimously ruled as constitutional a law forbidding institutions of higher learning that accept federal money from banning military recruiters. Now schools can either kick off the recruiters and the federal money, or welcome the recruiters and the federal money. College administrators like money, even more than genuflecting to fashionable causes, so it's not probable that the law schools at Harvard, Yale, UConn, and points beyond will continue to ban recruiters.
Camille Paglia has an similar article regarding academia ( relating to Harvard's recent purge )highlighted on Drudge today. Roberts is now three for three.
