Yale University permits military recruiters to recruit at law school
Under pressure from the Defense Department, the Yale University Law School on Tuesday temporarily suspended its policy against allowing military recruiters on campus.
The school formerly permitted recruiters to visit the campus only if first contacted by students.
Defense Department officials had threatened to prevent $350 million in research funds from going to Yale if the law school did not change its policy. All of Yale's schools could have lost federal funds if the law school did not lift its resitriction.
A 1996 federal law blocks funds for schools that do not allow military recruiters on campus.
Before changing its policy Tuesday, the law school had banned military recruiters because of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals.
Yale has had an official anti-discrimination policy toward homosexuals since 1978.
Also this week, the University of Southern California's law school bowed under pressure from the U.S. Air Force and allowed recruiters on campus for the first time since the 1980s.
-- Compiled by Josh Goodman
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