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After the Boston Globe originally ran the story under the headline "Kennedy School to Recruit Gay Students and Faculty," the school issued a statement emphasizing that the school does not "recruit or admit students, staff or faculty on the basis of sexual-orientation...
...addition, the report called on Dean Robert D. Putnam to officially condemn, the discriminatory policies of some groups that recruit at the Kennedy School. Such a statement would be aimed at the military--which excludes gays and lesbians from services--and employers (including government agencies) that use discriminatory standards in granting security clearances...
...Large numbers of government agencies recruit at the Kennedy School," says Robert Spencer, a member of the Committee on Issues of Sexual Orientation. "We thought that because of that relationship, the Kennedy School had a responsibility to communicate its disagreement with these practices...
Another Scientology-linked group, the Concerned Businessmen's Association of America, holds antidrug contests and awards $5,000 grants to schools as a way to recruit students and curry favor with education officials. West Virginia Senator John D. Rockefeller IV unwittingly commended the CBAA in 1987 on the Senate floor. Last August author Alex Haley was the keynote speaker at its annual awards banquet in Los Angeles. Says Haley: "I didn't know much about that group going in. I'm a Methodist." Ignorance about Scientology can be embarrassing: two months ago, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, noting that Scientology...
With such guidelines, a university can only recruit those gay and lesbian professors who have publicly declared their sexual orientation. At those handful of schools that may someday begin to recruit gay and lesbian professors, being "out" may become advantageous. But, say students and scholars alike, where higher levels of discrimination exist, such openness can be very risky...