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Article: Emporia State panel: Add sexual orientation

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January 22, 1999
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EMPORIA -- Emporia State University administrators were urged this week to include sexual orientation in the school's nondiscrimination policy.

The discussion was organized as part of ESU's educational programming on sexual orientation that was launched by the president's office after sexual orientation was removed from ESU's affirmative action policy last semester. Each of the four discussion panelists criticized the ESU administration for removing sexual orientation from the affirmative action policy. "There is a difference between not having sexual orientation (in a policy) to begin with and revoking sexual orientation from a nondiscriminatory policy," said ...

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