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University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 24, 1992
Council commends position against exclusion of homosexuals
By Janet Rorholm
Kansan staff writer
The University Council voted yesterday to send a letter to the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges commending the association's position against the exclusion of gays and lesbians from military service.
The letter says the council is pleased that the association is considering aggressive action, including litigation, to change the current Department of Defense policy excluding gays and lesbians from ROTC programs because of their sexual orientation.
The issue of whether ROTC programs should be allowed on college campuses has been a topic of national and local debate.
Carl Burkhead, professor of civil
engineering, was the only council member to vote against sending the letter. He said including gays and lesbians in the campus ROTC was not in students' best interest.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, went to the Pentagon last week with representatives from six universities to discuss the policy.
Shankel said yesterday that the U.S. assistant secretary of defense said the department was eager to gain a better understanding of campus views on the subject of exclusion of gays and lesbians from ROTC.
"He did not make any guarantees to us," Shankel said, "yet I think there's a general feeling that nothing is likely to be changed until after the elections in November."
He said the American Council on Education organized the meeting.
Lance Wright, student senator, said he was glad the council approved sending the letter to the association.
"The Department of Defense does not want to change this," Wright said. "The more pressure that's added, the closer it's going to be at the point where they are going to have to do something."
In other action, the council passed a rule, despite protests from student representatives, that will recommend restricted parking in lot 14 behind Fraser Hall. The rule would limit parking to vehicles with faculty/staff permits until 8:30 p.m.
Student Senate representatives did not approve of restricting parking behind Fraser, but faculty members said they had difficulty finding parking after 5 p.m.
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