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...School committee on Gay Legal Issues has asked students to boycott today's scheduled recruiting interviews with the U.S. Navy's office of the general counsel because of the Navy's alleged discrimination against homosexuals...
Sayers said he did not expect many of the students with scheduled interviews to boycott them. "The people who would interview with the Navy are not those who would be as sensitive to our position as those who wouldn't interview with the Navy," he said...
...committee has distributed posters and leaflets urging the boycott and citing several cases in which judges ruled against the Navy's policies on homosexuality...
Bernardi announced the decision Tuesday. Sayers said its timing had prevented organization of any protest beyond a boycott, and that the main purpose of calling for a boycott was to educate law students about the Navy's policies...
...group has also collected 800 signatures on a petition asking for support for the boycott...