- Placing a "warning" on all advertising and
informational materials related to military recruitment placed on law
school premises.
The Section recommends the following formulation of
words:
"WARNING - The US Armed Forces and JAG violate this Law
School's non-discrimination policy in their hiring practices. In
compliance with the Association of American Law Schools' rules,
employers who violate this Law School's non-discrimination policy are
normally denied access to on-campus interviewing facilities.
Regrettably, and under the threat of the withdrawl of federal funds to
this University posed by federal law under the Solomon Amendment, this
Law School is making a limited exception to the US Armed Forces and
JAG."
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- Sending a letter from deans to
students, detailing the history of the school's nondiscrimination
policies; the enactment of the Solomon amendments; the change of
campus policies in response; and the commitment to creating a
hospitable educational environment for all students
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- Sending letters from law faculty to
members of Congress, protesting the military's policy of
discriminating against gays and lesbians, expressing disapproval of
the Solomon amendments, and asking that they repeal the Solomon-Pombo
amendment
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- Establishing a bulletin board on
which to encourage faculty and students to express their views about
military policies
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- Hosting student forums at which
students and others can discuss discrimination by the military;
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- Establishing a "Safe Zone"
program which teaches faculty, staff, and students about sexual
orientation and trains them to respond sensitively to the concerns of
gays and lesbians;
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- Actively supporting gay and lesbian
student organizations;
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- Funding students to attend the
annual Lavender Law conferences, allowing them to establish networking
connections with many lawyers throughout the nation who are openly
gay, lesbian, or bisexual;
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- Exploring possibilities for fund
exchanges within the university to see whether exposure to Solomon
Amendment sanction might be reduced to a level at which the school
could resume application of its nondiscrimination policy to military
recruiters;
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- Establishing a permanent
faculty-student-staff task force to develop and implement a series of
active institutional and individual counter-measures;
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- Participating in legal and political
challenges both to the Solomon Amendment and the policy of
discrimination by the military;
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- Providing funding and support for an
annual symposium on the issues raised by the Solomon Amendment;
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- Purchasing tickets for a
fund-raising event each year for a gay and lesbian legal organization.
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- Career Services or Placement Office:
Each law school should have a formal, written policy that authorizes
and directs the Career Services Office to:
- manage the time, staff and facilities of that office with the
objective of maximizing efficiency in the use of interviewing rooms
and time slots;
- schedule interviews in rooms not located in the core facility, as
warranted by the school’s logistical and substantive considerations
or preferences;
- prioritize and manage the scheduling of interviews among
employers along a range of levels or forms that accord to that
particular school’s needs, interests or preferences and pursuant to
AALS policy.
- work with students, attorneys, alumni and faculty to identify
appropriate employment opportunities for sexual minority students
specifically. That office should provide alternative services
specifically tailored to the needs of its LGBT students that presently
are not provided, and that such services then be promptly funded and
consistently provided. The law school should instruct their
Career Services Office to prioritize this part of the ameliorative
process.
- prohibit entirely the delivery of discretionary support services
to any employer who denies interviewing and/or employment
opportunities to any de jure classification of students in good
standing, except when the classification clearly is based on
traditional hiring criteria used generally by the school and other
employers (i.e., grades, activities, experience).
- require all employers to secure actual and written permission
from the career services office for: (a) every entry onto the
law school campus and (b) every posting of any materials
whatsoever anywhere on the law school campus; this requirement of written
permission easily can be facilitated by the use of email and faxes,
and it is wise procedure to establish a written record establishing
that schools in fact permit "entry" and "access"
in accordance with Solomon II; this requirement also is necessary to
preclude the possibility of actual or perceived confusion over
specific entries and postings and to enable schools to monitor
military and other employer entries onto the campus.
- charge employers who use law school resources
"reasonable" fees for use of law school staff, facilities
and services, but that permits the waiver of all such fees for all
employers who certify truthfully and in writing to the law school that
they do not discriminate on the basis of any category referenced in
AALS, law school, university, and/or state or local nondiscrimination
policies.
- coordinate in advance the on-campus recruitment of all military
branches so that they occur on the same day.
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Law schools should engage in local and
regional opportunities to support LGBT rights. For example, local
domestic partner and/or nondiscrimination initiatives. Such support
can range from allowing community groups to use law school facilities
to faculty resolutions in favor of such or similar initiatives.
Whenever feasible, support of all types should be offered to help
promote a discrimination-free profession and community. These
opportunities can be managed on a case-by-case basis but, as a basic
principle, law school policy should embrace this final type of
amelioration to ensure maximum fulfillment of the duty to ameliorate.
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