Army Protests

An alumnus at the University of Pennsylvania is threatening to withhold a $5000 donation in an explosive controversy at Penn.

The alumnus is objecting to a recent decision by university President Sheldon Hackney to allow the U.S. Army to recruit on Penn's law school campus, despite its avowed policy of anti homosexual discrimination. Before Hackney's decision, the Army was banned from recruiting at the law school, as it is at many law schools across the country including those at Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and the University of California at Berkeley.

The alumnus decision as a victory by members of the law school's Ad Hoc Committee Against Discrimination, composed mainly of students which has been working since the middle of last month to persuade alumni to withhold donations as a way to pressure Hackney to reverse his policy. But Law School Dean Robert Mundheim said earlier this month that the alumnus's action was not in response to the group's campaign.

A scheduled informational appearance by an Air Force representative at the university rate last month was cancelled after a student group called Lesbians and Gays at Penn said it would set up a table to distribute anti-Air Force Literature. The Air Force also has a policy of discrimination against homosexuals.

And at Columbia University Air Force recruiters were met by more than 50 protesters when they conducted on campus interviews early this month.

Chanting slogans like Capitalist aggression leads to military intervention," and "Hell no we won't go we won't die for Texaco," members of the Coalition for Radical Change a new student group, voiced their opposition to the military's presence on campus.

Members of the protesting group at Columbia made no mention of the Air Force's anti homosexual discriminatory policies. The Daily Pennsylvanian and   The Columbia Daily Spectator