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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, MAY 3. 2005
Court to review 'don't ask, don't tell' protest
HOPE YEN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON THE Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider whether the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar military recruiters, wading into a dispute about campus free speech rights.
The justices will review in their next term beginning in October a ruling allowing law schools to restrict recruiters as a way of protesting the Pentagon's
"don't ask, don't tell" policy excluding openly gay people from military service.
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The case sets up a free speech fight over schools' rights of association and the government's need to promote an effective military in time of war. It's a dispute that has resonated on college campuses since at least the 1950s during Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communism crusade. At that time, left-learning professors were forced to sign loyalty oaths to the United States or be fired.
If ... bigots have a First Amendment right to exclude gays, then certainly universities have a First Amendment right to exclude bigots."
E. Joshua Rosenkranz Lawyer for 31 law schools
During the Vietnam War, the presence of ROTC programs on some campuses prompted protests, with opponents seeing
them as representatives of a wrongheaded foreign policy and the Pentagon as an institution incompatible with free thought
and expression.
Now the debate involves the Pentagon's desire to recruit military lawyers on campuses.
"The military services depend significantly on campus access to recruit the lawyers they need to carry out their missions," Bush administration lawyer Paul Clement wrote in filings with the court.
But E. Joshua Rosenkranz, a lawyer representing 31 law schools suing the Pentagon, contends the government may not force schools to accept its
discriminatory policy by linking military recruitment to federal research money.
"If, as the Supreme Court has held, bigots have a First Amendment right to exclude gays, then certainly universities have a First Amendment right to exclude bigots," he said.
At issue is a 1994 federal law requiring universities that receive federal funds to give the military the same access as other recruiters. At some schools, the funding can be hundreds of millions of dollars.
CAMPUS
Business seminar to focus on Japan
The Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO Chicago) will present a symposium tomorrow at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
JETRO is a division of the Japanese government concerned with foreign investment
"Viewpoint Japan: Branding, the Economy and the Ways of Today," will be from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
The symposium will be made up of a panel of representatives from Japanese businesses. The keynote speaker will be Ken G. Kabira, former marketing executive for McDonald's Japan and Kellogg's Japan.
"Students could really benefit from having Ken Kabira," said Bill Tsutsui, professor of East Asian studies.
Both business students and students interested in entrepreneurship should attend the symposium, Tsutsui said.
"The Asian economies have continued to grow," Tsutsui said. "But selling in Asia is not like selling in America."
Rescued and recovering
KPR staffers garner broadcast awards
Adam Land
Kansas Public Radio took home five Associated Press Broadcaster awards from the AP's April 23 banquet in Kansas City, Mo., according to a University media release.
Peter Hancock, KPR Statehouse Bureau Chief, won first and second places in the "Spot News" category. The first place story was about vice presidential candidate John Edwards' visit to Lawrence. The second place award went to a report on the gay marriage debate in Kansas.
Bryan Thompson, KPR health reporter, won second place in the "Enterprise" story for his report about music and dance helping Alzheimer's patients in Kansas.
KPR News Director, J. Schafer and News Producer Laura Lorson helped with the Alzheimer's story production. Lorson won second place in the "Best Newcast" category and Schafer received an honorable mention.
Kansas Public Radio is licensed to the University of Kansas and broadcasts on KANU 91.5 FM in Lawrence. Note Karlin
Grace Beahm/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Troy Driscoll, center, receives a cup of juice from Jewel Fowler, right, during a news conference yesterday with Josh Long at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. Driscoll and Long were rescued off the coast of North Carolina after being adrift for nearly a week.
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