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...freshman dorm, a vote Thursday night ended in a 33-6 decision to allow the guests to sleep in the dorm's lounge, although the decision was not reached easily. "It was a really heavy discussion," said freshman Ed Notargiacomo. "It really caused a rift within the unit...
...Notargiacomo said Brown Health Education Director Toby Simon came to the unit meeting to alleviate students' fears about health risks involved with housing the visiting gay students. She guaranteed that there was no real threat of contracting AIDS from the guests, Notargiacomo said...
...condoning anything. They're human beings who need a place to sleep," Notargiacomo said. "It's not like we're all of a sudden making it a homosexual school," another freshman in the unit said...
...Notargiacomo said an Orthodox Jew in his dorm was so adamantly opposed on religious grounds to letting the homosexuals stay in the unit's lounge that "he said to us that he no longer considers himself part of the unit" when it voted to house the guests...
...feels we've trampled on his beliefs," Notargiacomo explained. "I was amazed." Notargiacomo added that one of his resident counselors, a born-again Christian, was also opposed to hosting a group of gay students...
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