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...denying the request for a formal non-discrimination policy, the council argued primarily that no such statute was necessary. Instead, members felt the statement that they issued deploring all harrasment on campus would suffice to quell gay students' fears. But clearly, as GSA leaders stressed later, a statement without a formal University policy does not make them feel secure on campus. Telling gay students in writing that the University believes in non-discrimination would hurt no one; in spurning such a reasonable request, the council rejected an attempt merely to help gays rise above second-class citizenship...
...denying the request for a formal non-discrimination policy, the council argued primarily that no such statute was necessary. Instead, members felt the statement that they issued deploring all harrasment on campus would suffice to quell gay students' fears. But clearly, as GSA leaders stressed later, a statement without a formal University policy does not make them fell secure on campus. Telling gay students in writing that the University believes in non-discrimination would hurt no one; in spurning such a reasonable request, the council rejected an attempt merely to help gays rise above second-class citizenship...
...denying the request for a formal non-discrimination policy, the council argued primarily that no such statute was necessary. Instead, members felt the statement that they issued deploring all harrasment on campus would suffice to quell gay students' fears. But clearly, as GSA leaders stressed later, a statement without a formal University policy does not make them feel secure on campus. Telling gay students in writing that the University believes in non-discrimination would hurt no one; in spurning such a reasonable request, the council rejected an attempt merely to help gays rise above second-class citizenship...
Meanwhile, a mass drive against dissidents was in progress, designed to quell all opposition to the final imposition of a theocratic Muslim state. So sweeping was the roundup that the jails could scarcely contain the torrent of new prisoners. The revolutionary firing squads were working round the clock. In the week following the pro-and anti-Banisadr riots, more than 50 men, women and children were executed. Some of the victims, like the writer and publisher Ali Asghar Amirani, were accused of "strengthening the Shah's regime." Others were members of the Bahá'í faith, whose Iranian...
...affairs the mate proposed reducing our allowance of provisions one-half whilst the calms continued. We could not have reduced our allowance of water for already we had not sufficient to keep our mouths in moisture. We frequently applied salt water to our parched lips with the hope to quell the fever that raged there but that only served to increase our thirst so much that some were compelled to seek relief in their own urine. Our sufferings during these hot days almost exceed belief. Some of the men were induced to hang themselves over the side of the boat...