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A designated student should be in charge of monitoring your school's amelioration efforts. To this end, below is a checklist of the recommendations contained in the Solomon Amelioration Handbook. At the close of each year, the completed checklist should be sent to Professor Chai Feldblum at feldblum@law.georgetown.edu. Those schools that have undertaken a substantial number of the suggested amelioration activities will be added to the Solomon Amelioration Honor Roll.
First Steps
- An administrative accounting to determine the extent of the financial threat posed by Solomon.
- Community discussion of the decision to comply with Solomon or with the full AALS Bylaw 6-4.
- If compliance with Solomon, a minimal compliance.
Administrative Response
- Notice of opposition to presence of military recruiters.
- Conspicuous notice of zero-tolerance for discrimination.
- Circulation of a letter from the law school dean.
- Organization of programming to coincide with military visits.
- Scheduling and advance notice of military recruitment visits.
- Coordination of military visits well in advance.
- Advance notice to law school and university communities.
- Establishment of a Solomon Amelioration Task Force.
- Support for protests against military recruitment.
- Approval of reasonable funding requests from protest organizers.
- Support of teach-ins.
- Attendance/speaking at protest.
- Amelioration efforts by offices of career services.
- Organize mentoring programs for lesbian and gay students.
- Send sexual minority students to LGBT-specific networking events.
- Provide students information about employers’ nondiscrimination policies.
- Enhancement of lesbian and gay comfort, visibility, and scholarship on campus.
- Organize, encourage, and sponsor lesbian- and gay-related programming.
- Actively support gay and lesbian student organizations.
- Ensure that incoming classes understand school’s commitment to comfort and safety of LGBT students.
- Ensure lesbian and gay visibility in the curriculum.
Suggestions for Faculty
- Serve as a member of your school’s amelioration Task Force.
- Organize a teach-in.
- Participate in a challenge to the Solomon Amendment and/or 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.
- Encourage fellow faculty to write letters and sign a resolution and/or petition.
Suggestions for Students
- Read the Solomon amelioration handbook thoroughly.
- Join your school’s amelioration Task Force.
- Write letters and circulate a student resolution/petition.
- Ask for the support of non-LGBT student organizations.
- Encourage your peers to attend amelioration events.
- Ask students if they are willing to have their names and email addresses forwarded to LGBT-rights organizations via Professor Chai Feldblum at feldblum@law.georgetown.edu.
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