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75 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec75 and id is 1 raw text is: HARVR LAW REOR America's Oldest Law School Newspaper SEPTEMBER 10, 1982 Three 1Ls chat along the railing at the stern of the cruise boat which carried them and 500 classmates across the Boston Harbor waters on Saturday night. More 1L pictures on pages 8 and 9. Army Threatens Siege Over Gays, School Responds By Michael Medina The United States Army has threatened to withdraw all defense contracts from Harvard University because Harvard Law School will not allow the army to recruit here. An HLS non-discrimination policy prohibits organizations that dis- criminate against applicants on the basis of age, handicap or sexual orientation from recruiting at the Law School. In a letter addressed last May to HIS Dean James Vorenberg, Judge Advocate General (JAG) Major General Hugh J. Clausen wrote that he is considering recom- mending that no further defense contracts be awarded to Harvard because of the policy. The JAG, the top United States Army lawyer, also addressed similar letters to law schools at Yale, NYU, Colum- bia, UCLA and Wayne State Uni- versity, which have comparable anti- discrimination policies. If followed through, the with- (Continued on Page 12) 0 1982 BY THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL RECORD CORPORATION VOL. 75, NO, 1 25 CENTS ChargesFly Over BLSA Course Boycott By Dave Horn Following several weeks of harsh criticism from the national press, the leader of the Harvard Black Law Students Association returned to Cambridge this week and claimed that BLSA's boycott of the winter- term course on Racial Discrimi- nation and Civil Rights has been badly misunderstood. He labeled as demagoguery Dean Vorenberg's charge that BLSA was boycotting the course because one of its in- structors, Jack Greenberg, is white. Muhammad Kenyatta, president of BLSA, told the RECOaD that the dean has dealt with us in bad faith. By injecting the charge of anti- white bias and reverse racism, the dean has played into the hands of the most reactionary and racist ele- ments of our society. Dean Vorenberg denied that he had done anything to focus atten- tion on the reverse racism issue and declined to comment on the accusation that he had tried to por- tray Kenyatta or BLSA in a bad light. Kenyatta was referring to a let- ter Vorenberg wrote to all return- ing students in July. In that letter, Vorenherg announced his opposi- tion to BLSA's boycott of the course and referred to an earlier letter in which Kenyatta allegedly stated that one reason for the boycott was that the course was being taught (Continued on Page6)

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