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...rewording the policy, especially when it is impossible to enforce in the first place. In an emergency situation, students will do what they think is right depending on the situation. Louise H. Russell, director of the AEO for Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), says that, “There will always be well-meaning individuals who want to help, and if it can be provided safely, that is welcome.” Because of legal liability, Harvard cannot give an official wink and nudge to students to flout the rules. But there is certainly...
Bill Wright-Swadel, director of the Office of Career Services (OCS) for the College and GSAS, attests to the fact that law school admissions is less subjective than undergraduate admissions. The process is, in large part, a numbers game, and the pressure to crack the LSAT can be even greater than the stress engendered...
...that's Berkeley, but the trend is clear: according to Kevin Jennings, who in 1990 founded a gay-teacher group that later morphed into GLSEN, many of the kids who start GSAs identify themselves as straight. Some will later come out, of course, but Jennings believes a majority of GSA members are heterosexuals who find anti-gay rhetoric as offensive as racism. "We're gonna win," says Jennings, speaking expansively of the gay movement, "because of what's happening in high schools right now ... This is the generation that gets...
...wears spiky hair, Fauvist T shirts, an easy smile. He first noticed the wave of young people coming out when he was pastor of a student church at Virginia Tech. I asked how his group could succeed when homosexuality has been so depathologized among kids. "GLSEN has 3,000 GSAs, but who knows how many student ministries there are, how many Bible clubs in schools?" he answered. "And my hope is they will be the ones who care for these kids...
...Christian right has found its strategy--inclusion, prayer, the promise of change--and the gay movement has found one--GSAs, scholarships, the promise of acceptance. But what of the kids themselves? In July, I met 30 way-out-and-proud LGBT youths at a Michigan retreat arranged by the Point Foundation; these high-achieving Point scholars are getting from $4,000 to $30,000 a year to pay for their educations and are considered by some gays to be the movement's future leaders. A few days later at Exodus' Youth Day in North Carolina, I interviewed...