Law Lets Colleges Bar Military Recruiters Without Risking a Loss of Student Aid

Colleges and their professional schools will be able to bar military recruiters from campus without risking a loss of federal student-aid dollars, under legislation that President Clinton signed last week.

The measure waters down the so-called Solomon Amendment, a federal law that requires some U.S. agencies to cut off funds to colleges if they ban military recruiting or Reserve Officer Training Corps units. The law was enacted in 1996 to penalize colleges that denied campus access to

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