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...mitosis, and the conflicts-of-interest statement--while important, will probably excite less controversy than an issue which is not on the Faculty agenda but which most council members say is bound to confront the full Faculty before the year is out: a proposal by the Gay Students Association (GSA) calling for a formal University policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
...council denied that request last year, issuing instead a statement deploring harassment on campus. Members now say, however, that the heated debate that action provoked, and a Faculty by-law allowing any professor to raise an issue during a Faculty meeting make its reappearance inevitable--particularly since GSA leaders have pledged to seek discussion of their proposal by the full Faculty. As David Layzer, Menzel Professor of Astrophysics and a Faculty Council member, says, "Any Faculty member can bring it to the Faculty--the council can't prevent...
Council members, for the most part, say Faculty debate on the GSA measure would probably not change the council's decision to deny the request. They note that the council, as a body elected by the entire Faculty, is probably representative of Faculty opinions. But some say the impact of a public meeting before the entire Faculty (council meetings are closed) could conceivably tilt debate toward the GSA's stance...
...Faculty Council quashed the request of the Gay Students Association (GSA) for such a policy late last spring; that denial came just months after administrators stopped the GSA from including leaflets in spring term registration packets by discovering a new policy forbidding student groups from distributing leaflets in the packets. In both cases, the University stopped GSA members from asserting their rights with particularly fallacious justification...
...further attempt to educate the Harvard community on gay issues, the GSA launched a campaign this spring to obtain an official College stance opposing discrimination against gays. The proposal made it as far as the Faculty Council; and although that body denied the need for the policy, the GSA's efforts forced gay issues into the administrative limelight...