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Existing Faculty legislation requires that employers discuss their hiring practices before they can recruit on campus if 500 students request such a meeting. Last month, close to 700 students signed a petition sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Students Association (GLSA) asking the Navy to discuss its hiring before a scheduled recruiting visit...
...addition to meeting with Faculty and administrators, the GLSA is working with sympathetic alumni, and members are considering approaching Corporation members and members of the Board of Overseers directly...
...Harvard does listen more to its alumni than to its students," Mealy said of the newly formed alumni group. Members of that group met with John B. Fox '59, dean of the College, to discuss the status of gay undergraduates, and have helped to fund some of the GLSA's efforts...
...GLSA members said they will focus in particular on corporation members and overseas who work for campanies with their own non-discrimination policies toward gay employees. About one-third of the Fortune 500 companies now have such policies, Mealy said...
That statement, which the Faculty Council approved in June 1981 after rejecting a non-discrimination policy, needs wider circulation because gay students are still subject to harassment, and GLSA posters are still regularly defaced, Yedinsky said...