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)<>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 See POLICIES. Page 5 Tuition Continued from page 1 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 Schools suspected of antitrust violations 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.) 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