Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!decvax!mit-athena!wdoherty From: wdoherty@mit-athena.UUCP (Will Doherty) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: UC BANS HOMOPHOBIC RECRUITERS Message-ID: <62@mit-athena.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:56:05 EST Article-I.D.: mit-athe.62 Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:56:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Feb-85 06:33:31 EST Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 38 >From GCN Feb 16, 1985, p.2.: "UC Bans Employers Who Discriminate Berkeley, CA--Accepting a proposal from the lesbian/gay campus network, the University of California has agreed to prevent private employers who discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation from using campus placement facilities. President David Gardner has notified the chancellors of the nine UC campuses of the policy. Chancellors must work out details of implementation with the University of California Lesbian and Gay Intercampus Network (UCLGIN) Nondiscrimination Project. UCLGIN Nondiscrimination Project Coordinator Robert Anderson described Gardner's action as 'a major step toward the full implementation of the polict on nondiscrimination against lesbians and gay men that the UC Regents adopted in June, 1983.' Gardner's decision recognized the 1979 California Supreme Court ruling in Gay Law Students Association v. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph which determined that discrimination against 'persons who identify themselves as homosexual' violates the California Labor Code. That decision applies to all private employers operating in the state. Discrimination by employers using the placement centers on campuses was documented by a survey of students, and by written admission of several employers. Gardner's action leaves unresolved the presence of military recruiters on campus. The military asserts that its practice of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is legal." If you had anything to do with this, congratulations! Please get in touch with me at: decvax!mit-athena!wdoherty Will Doherty