Board Considers Sexual Orientation C Ause Protest Disrupts Meeting '
urren NNIN G STUDENT V O I CE OF UM- ST. L OUIS Board considers sexual orientation c ause Protest disrupts meeting '. as Curators implement · order into system policy . .. .. ~ .. ,,', ,,',',' : BY SUE BRITT " .: .'. " . ~ .. ~ " . staff associate . : :. :~ '.: .~ :: ',' .',; : ', The Board of Curators voted Friday at UM-St. Louis I~ I . ,': ...... : :': ': . ,, ' . ,' to make executive order three into system policy, eliciting . :: : ~ . ~ :. :. .'. .'. '" ' .' ~. a protest from some students who said the order does not go fa:r enough to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation. "The policy [executive order three] was established to create a positive work environment and to enable all mem bers of the University community to effectively perform their work 0, to achieve their educational goals," said Manuel Pacheco, President of the UM system. "It was intended to include all legal categories of nondiscrimina . tion as well as other types of discrimination, including that based on sexual orientation." Pacheco said that a committee was put in place to study the issue of including sexual orientation into the anti-discrimination policy. Public hearings were held Nov. 13 at Columbia wherein fac ul ty, staff, and students from all four campuses addressed the commit Stephanie Platt/ 17Ie Current tee in person and hundreds more commented through let UM-St. Louis Director of Institutional Safety Robert Roeseler confronts prot esters as t hey disrupt the Board of ter, e-mail, fax, and telephone. Pacheco said that after Curators' meeting Friday. The protesters, upset over t he Board's decision 0 11 a pro posed sexual orient ation reviewing all that was submitted, the executive committee clause for the UM system anti-discrimination policy, were eventually led from t he room by police.
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