The reinstatement of military recruiters on campus marks a return to inequality and exclusion: the law school must play host to an employer that openly discriminates against members of the HLS community because of their sexual orientation. HLS Lambda finds it reprehensible that the Department of Defense has chosen to use the Solomon Amendment to threaten the University’s funding and impose its own discriminatory practices on an academic community that should be free from such unequal treatment. While we wish the University had taken a more active stance in litigating this matter in order to protect its own and its students’ rights, we applaud Dean Kagan for the courageous action she took last November in barring military recruiters from campus and affirming the law school’s commitment to equality for all its members. We hope that the Department of Defense realizes that discrimination against service members because of their sexual orientation and its threats against academic institutions across the nation serve neither its interests nor the country’s as a whole. In a time when we may be in greatest need of dedicated service members, our military should be welcoming those who would proudly serve our country to the table rather than excluding them from it.