Yale Law, Newly Defeated, Allows Military Recruiters - Page 6

dixon76710 · 10-03-07, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by new coup for you

I can't catch a football to save my life.

Stereotypes are usually true.

Maybe we do need Ivy Leaguers in the millitary, then maybe we wouldn't lose all the time.

I bet you throw like a girl as well.

RightOfCenter · 10-03-07, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by dixon76710

Not to mention that at Yale law school they are recruiting for the JAG corps.

This is probably Yale undergrads we're talking about, but most are probably interested in JAG or medicine.

new coup for you · 10-03-07, 03:22 PM

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Enlisted maybe, but the military needs an intellectual officer corps hence why they recruit at places of higher learning. Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets are held to a higher academic standard than almost any other profession.

I can believe that, but that's not the millitary is it, it's just a unrepresenative elite few.

If saying that the average millitary person is as intelectual as the average fireman or cop (which i continue to stand by) is so outrageous, I'd ask you guys why you think cops and fireman are stupid.

RightOfCenter · 10-03-07, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by new coup for you

I can believe that, but that's not the millitary is it, it's just a unrepresenative elite few.

If saying that the average millitary person is as intelectual as the average fireman or cop (which i continue to stand by) is so outrageous, I'd ask you guys why you think cops and fireman are stupid.

Who said cops and firemen are stupid? You seem to be the only one implying that.

new coup for you · 10-03-07, 04:00 PM

I claimed that soldiers are as smart as cops and fireman to which DeeJay responded:

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than you are a fool who bought into the Dems 'only the poor and uneducated are stuck joining the military'

evidently comparing soldiers to fireman was "buying into" the "democratic beleif" that only the "poor and uneducated" join the millitary.

dixon76710 · 10-03-07, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by RightOfCenter

This is probably Yale undergrads we're talking about, but most are probably interested in JAG or medicine.

From the article

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(Yale College has not restricted the activities of military recruiters.) ....

For five years, Yale Law School has fought to restrict military recruiters from its job fairs because of the Pentagon’s policy that bars openly gay or bisexual people from the military. ...

After an appeals court ruled in favor of the Defense Department on Sept. 17, the law school said it would allow recruiters from the Air Force and Navy to participate in a university-sponsored job interview program for law students on Monday afternoon. ...

Since 1978, Yale Law School has required recruiters to sign a pledge of nondiscrimination...

But in 2002, the federal government threatened to withhold the millions it grants to Yale every year, mostly for medical and scientific research, if the law school did not accommodate the recruiters. The law school complied, but 45 members of its faculty filed suit, challenging the law as an infringement on free speech and association as well as academic freedoms. (Yale College has not restricted the activities of military recruiters.)

RightOfCenter · 10-03-07, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by dixon76710

From the article

I stand corrected, I figured it was just the college ROTC programs.

PolarComposite · 10-03-07, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by new coup for you

That was more of a hint towards he has some kind of alumni status, but yeah I guess that was unclear of me. The football and the fraternity was used more as confirmation of his academic inabillity.

Anyway, anyone who would join the millitary will not be missed in the Ivy League.

I am curious if you understand the academic standards that football players have to meet in order to be admitted to Ivy league schools...

They're higher than most university's acceptance guidelines for the general student population, I can assure you. Most (not all, but definitely most) guys playing Ivy league football could get in to just about any school they choose- with or without football.

As for frats, and most especially legacies- stereotype away, those don't bother me so much.

RightinNYC · 10-04-07, 12:42 AM

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I stand corrected, I figured it was just the college ROTC programs.

Nah, undergraduate schools can get around the Solomon amendment by letting their students attend ROTC at other schools. It's law schools that are the main cause of this fight, because JAG wants to participate in On Campus Interviewing, which is where >90% of law students pick the job they will take when they graduate. For years, many law schools refused to let the JAG participate in OCI because of the military's DADT policy. They would force them off campus, hold marches, chant outside the rooms where the interviews were being held, and scream at the interviewers. The ironic part is that the JAG officers conducting the interviews were for the most part

a) Alumni of that particular law school, and
b) Opponents of the DADT policy who were nonetheless required to do their jobs

I think it's pathetic to see these schools who love to tout their "public service focus" monday through thursday turn around on friday and encourage their students to denigrate and attack their own alumni who have chosen to serve in the nation's armed services. Then they have the balls to hit those same alumni up for $5,000+ donations?