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LGBTQ+

Group: UW-Madison will be biggest university with gay leader

A gay rights group says Biddy Martin would be the first openly gay person to lead a university as big as University of Wisconsin-Madison.

May 29, 2008

Students

Probe Over Whether Students’ Voting Rights Violated Still Ongoing

Some students at a historically Black university are wondering why an investigation by the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott into alleged voting rights violations is still not finished.

April 27, 2008

Students

Current LGBT Students Find Sororities, Fraternities More Hospitable Than Past Graduates

While there have always been members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in fraternities and sororities, it is only in the last decade that they have been acknowledged.

April 2, 2008

Leadership & Policy

San Jose State President Bans Campus Blood Drives as Part of Nondiscrimination Policy

San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives in protest of a longstanding government policy that bars gays from donating blood and called the policy discriminatory, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.

February 4, 2008

LGBTQ+

Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic Sets a Precedent

So far this year, Columbia University Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic has secured political asylum in the U.S. for a gay Jamaican man and for a lesbian from Turkmenistan, who feared persecution for her sexual orientation and political opinions in that mostly Muslim country. These are just two of the cases being handled by the fledgling clinic embarking on an emerging field — sexuality and gender law.

November 24, 2007

LGBTQ+

Gays Fight for University Employer Benefits in Court

LANSING Mich. The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday will begin weighing whether state universities and other public-sector employers can provide health insurance to the partners of gay workers.

November 4, 2007

Students

New Guide to Find Most Gay-friendly Campuses

Colleges and universities are increasingly finding ways to provide safe and welcoming environments to students of all sexual orientations.

October 9, 2007

LGBTQ+

Yale loses court case over military recruiters

NEW HAVEN Conn. Yale Law School prepared Wednesday to end its policy of not working with military recruiters after a court ruling this week jeopardized about $300 million in federal funding.

September 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hampshire College president marries gay partner of 27 years

AMHERST Mass. The president of a small liberal arts college in western Massachusetts and his male partner of 27 years have married.

September 18, 2007

LGBTQ+

Gay Studies Programs Thriving on U.S. College Campuses

SAN FRANCISCO Before he transferred to San Francisco State University from its sister school in rural central California, Emo Loredo knew only a few other openly gay students.

September 2, 2007

LGBTQ+

Clinton tackles ‘black enough’ question at Vegas conference

LAS VEGAS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton focused on her experience and years of public service Thursday when asked the question: “Are you black enough?”

August 12, 2007

Students

The persistent madness of Greek hazing: psychologists provide insight on why hazing persists among Black Greeks – fraternities; includes related articles – Cover Story

Mary Polk of Maryland didn’t learn that her son Marcus had been hospitalized until he called his brother when he came out of the operating room on April 8.

July 12, 2007