Study shows:
Homosexuals
twice as likely
toabuse drugs
By Gail Griffin
■ I he Daily Northwestern
Northwestern U.
Homosexuals art' twice as like
ly as heterosexuals to become vic
tims of substance abuse, accord
ing to a recent study.
According to statistics pub
lished bv the Pride Institute in
Kden IVairie, Minn.. 33 percent
of the gay and lesbian community
is chemically dependent, as com
pared to alxiut 12 percent of the
general population
Terry, the manager of a (’hicago
center for homosexuals recover
ing from substance abuse, said
the lack of alternatives to the bar
scene is one reason for the high
number.
Between 500 and 700 people
attend wtvkly meetings at the New
Tow n Alano Club, including mem
bers of Alcoholics Anonymous,
Narcotics Anonymous and Adult
('hildren of Alcoholics
Pride Institute Admissions
Counselor Michael Witt, a homo
sexual. recovering alcoholic and
drug user: also attributed the
high rate of alcoholism to the stig
ma of lieing a lesbian or gay man
in today's society. "Personally, the
need for escape is not only justi
fied hut exacerbated by being gay.
because of our inability Ui accept
ourselves,’ he said
The president of Northwestern
1' s Gay and lesbian Alliance.
David Munar, agreed. "I think if
they were proud enough, and had
enough self-confidence to admit
they were gay, they wouldn't have
the problem,’’ the sophomore
said
Schools work to balance conduct codes
with students’ First Amendment rights
By Amy Rosenfeld
a Tt’e Stanford O.iily
Stanford U
A recent outbreak of racial incident.-*
nn campuses across the country has
sparked vigorous debate over how tar a
university can go in prohibiting harass
ment without violating First
Amendment rights
Several schools, including the l' of
Michigan. Brown 1 Kmory l' the l
ot Wisconsin system and the l of
t 'alllornia sy stem, established new anti
harassment policies or amended exist
mg student conduct codes this year
Michigan s policy overturned
Idle ipiestion of W bother t he.so policies
violate an individual’s right to freedom
of expression \y as tested this tall when a
1 of Michigan code yy as ruled unconsti
tut lonal in I S District (’ourt
The first such challenge to a university
harassment policy the suit yyas tilt'd by
the American Civil lalx-rties l'moil on
Ix'half of a Michigan graduate student
The policy, implemented last spring
deemed punishable tiehaviors such as
hanging a Confederate (lag on a dorm
door or say ing women are not as skilled
ill sports as men according to \llt ht^tin
l)<nl\ reporter Noah Finkel
Michigan attorney Klsa Cole who
wrote the original policy s.ud 11 yy.is
motivated In a series of incidents
including racist fliers in dorms and
racist |okes broadcast on the campus
radio station
Kofx-rt Sedler the At l.l attorney who
represented the student, described the
language of the policy as “overbroad and
y ague, adding. You can't prohibit ideas
no matter how offensive they are
There were about la complaints filed
under the policy, but only one went all
the yy ay to a hearing. I'ole said She
stressed that in every case when* a Mu
dent was disciplined, the punishment
yy.is agreed upon fix each party involved
However. Stanford Law Professor
tierald Ciunther called the history 'if
MAMMAL t ‘i A M‘)f T A , • •'! A t ' ’ 1 '
cases exammen under the Michigan |><>1
ic\ a “horror story Cumber said most
oft he Michigan complaints were filed In
white students against minority stu
dents lie believes this was to some
extent, the opposite ot the policy S orip
nal intent to protect minority students
In one instance. (’itinther said, a hlack
student used the term “white trash"
when talking with a white student, who
later tiled a complaint Idle hlack stu
dent was required to write .1 three-pap*
letter of apology to the white student In
other instances students were required
to write apolopes for publication in the
campus newspaper
Stanford s controversy
The debate heated up at Stanford
when the Student t'onduct lwpsiative
Council, the body responsible for
changes 111 the liehavior code, proposed
a controversial interpretation of the um
veisitvs Fundamental Standard
The initial interpretation asserted
that all meniiiers of the Stanford com
mumtv have a ri^ht to he free from
attacks which “b\ accepted community
standards degrade, victimize, stipna
tize or pejoratively characterize them
on the liasis of personal, cultural or intel
lectual diversity The action w as precip
itated b\ a number of events on campus
including I he posting of racist fliers and
! he repeated harassing of an 1LA by a stu
dent who made homophobic remarks
Outcry from community members led
to a revamping of the proposal
The second interpretation narrowed
offenses to "harassment by vilification
and "fighting words" which are
addressed directly to an individual or
group of persons and "commonly under
stood to convey, in a direct and visceral
way. hatred or contempt of those people
on the basis of race, handicap, religion,
sex or sexual orientation.
The term "fighting words" comes from
a lb-12 1’ S Supreme Court case which
qualified tfie First Amendment to pro
lubit speech directed toward an tndivid
ual or group of individuals w Inch is likely
to evoke a violent reaction.
Because Stanford is a private univer
siiv the court decision involving
Michigan is “not directly relevant.” 1-iw
Professor Thomas (Jrev said. However,
the administration wants to Is* consis
tent with the Constitution, he said
Debate at other schools
Kmory, Brown, and the Wisconsin and
IV systems also have adopted anti
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colleges" .ibout f in- tuition increase
lie fore it has In-ell announced. Scott said
lie -.ml -uch sharing of information
probably - oiild Ik* construed a - price-fix
York College President Koln-rt losue
suggested that schools regularly share
information ibout tuition and faculty
salaries unong their cohorts Having
been in this busim -s tot main years I
know information is liemg shared, but
whether or not this i- pnce-ngging only
a court an decide
He -aid. 'll vou look it tile statistics
for the last 10 years, you either believe
little cohorts of colleges are sharing
information, or the whole law of stalls
tics is wrung ~
The federal probe mark- an ellort to
uncover any communication hetyveen
schools that could constitute price fix
mg and could load tho •Justice
Department to file i ivil diaries against
schools involved
Hogei Kmgsepp i Weslevan l stu
• lent, tiled i suit in a New dork court
igainst I'd of the colleges, including his
own, a tier t he invest igation liecame poli
tic He is .I'fing tor triple damages foi
all curreni students at the schtnils ind
tanner students who qualify under
statutes of linutations
In iddition to fxitential court losses
Scott said the investigative demand
requires schiKils to submit vast amounts
of information at ore.it expense, mclnd
inn ill financial records admissions
records memos, correspondence, meet
ing agendas, telephone logs mil even
personal diaries from t he last five vcars
Sheldon K Sieinhach. general counsel
for the \mencan t ’mined on Education,
desert lied this request as including "not
rooms full, hut warehouses lull ot docu
ments in a Chranich o/ Highc
Education irticle
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Agnes Scott College
Albion College
Antioch U
Amherst College
Barnard College
Bates College
Bennington College
Bowdom College
Brown U
Bryn Mawr College
Chatham College
U ot Chicago
Colby College
Columbia U
Connecticut College
Converse College
Cornell U
Dartmouth College
Denison U
Earlham College
Goucher College
Hamilton College
Harvard U
Hollins College
Hope College
Johns Hopkins U
Kenyon College
Mary Baldwin College
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Northwestern U
Obertm College
Ohio Wesleyan U
U of Pennsylvania
Princeton U
Randolph-Macon
Women s College
Skidmore College
Smith College
U of Southern California
Stanford U
Sweet Briar College
Trinity College Conn.)
Tufts U
Vassar College
Wellesley College
Wells College
Wesleyan U
Wheaton College (Mass.)
Williams College
Vale U