Yay America!

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case between several colleges and the military. The issue: according to current laws, if a school refuses to treat military recruiters exactly as they treat 'other employees', then the school can be denied any and all federal funding. The entire text of the law can be read here. This ought to be required reading for any American college student, I think (as should the bits of the No Child Left Behind act for all public high school students [as that, unbeknowest to most, mandates that students' parents must submit an official form to opt out of having their personal information handed over to the DoD]).

According to this law (The Solomon Amendment), if a college refuses to provide recruiters with access to campus and the phone numbers, addresses, names, dates and places of birth, academic history, and other personal details, then the school can be denied any and all federal money. In short: if it comes down to it, your school can maintain your privacy and sacrifice possibly millions of dollars in federal money. Or, they can provide a bigoted, violent organization that has frequently been accused of war crimes and grotesque, blatent violations of human rights, with your personal, private information.

Is this country great or what? Yay America! God bless our troop!