Nonetheless, the Department of Defense took no action regarding the inability of its recruiters to appear at UCSC job fairs. Then, in January 2007, the UCSC cancelled a job fair scheduled for later that month given safety concerns related to its expectation of the type of protest that took place in 2006. Finally, on April 25, 2007, UCSC “anti-war activists held a celebratory rally” after learning that Army and Marine Corps recruiters had pulled out of the April job fair, just one day after UCSC officials had warned them that as many as 400 students would protest their presence on campus. While one student had the courage to speak out against the inability of military recruiters to appear on campus ("There's actually quite a few moderate and conservative students on this campus who are likely to be in the closet for fear of reprisal."), there was no comment from the Defense Department.
There will be one now. On July 25, 2007, Young America’s Foundation (YAF), a non-profit, organization committed to ensuring that young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values and one of the nation’s most active groups on America’s college campuses, sued Secretary Robert M. Gates. YAF’s demand is simple: declare UCSC in violation of the Solomon Amendment and withhold the federal funds that it would otherwise receive until military recruiters can appear safely at its job fairs.