riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (02/19/85)
>> ...rumor has it there are no gay students at SMU.
Not true, whatever some folks at SMU might like to believe. SMU, despite
its generally rich and conservative image, has its share of gay students.
It and Texas A&M have been the scene of heated controversies of late over
the establishment of gay student groups on campus. At A&M the
administration went so far as to ban the campus gay organization in order to
"protect" its members from potential violence at the hands of the student
body! It took legal action to make the A&M administration back down. At
SMU the opposition has been more subtle.
If anybody wants more information, I know that an article about gays at SMU
was published in the "Texas Observer" (a political journal available at good
libraries even outside of Texas) within the past year or so.
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