8 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Campus recruiting by military to ruled on by Supreme Court OBAMA Q butts on the job market? Can we honestly say our teachers are working twice as hard, or our parents," Obama asked as the audience nodded their heads. Obama also said improvement was needed at home as well. "We've got some work to do in our own households ยข and our own communities - new money won't make a dime's bit of difference if we don't turn off the television set. Economic development includes throwing your own trash away to keep communities clean," Obama said, while MKsr sEcscns i uy the audience affirmed his statements with applause and Rev. Wendell Anthony sits at dinner with Sen. Barack Obama murmurs of approval. and his wife Michelle at Sunday's NAACP event. I WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider whether the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar mili- tary recruiters, wading into a dispute over campus free speech rights. The justices will review in their next term beginning in October a ruling allow- ing 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. The case sets up a free speech fight over schools' rights of association and the government's need to promote an effec- tive 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-leaning professors were forced to sign loyalty oaths to the United States or be fired. 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 Penta- gon's desire to recruit military lawyers on campuses. "The military services depend sig- nificantly on campus access to recruit the lawyers they need to carry out their mis- sions," Bush administration lawyer Paul Clement wrote in filings with the court. But E. Joshua Rosenkranz, a lawyer representing 31 law schools suing the Pen- tagon, 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 the michigan daily GROUNDS PEOPLE NEEDED We do more than just cut grass and we need YOU! 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