Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 22:40:50 EST
From: Daniel Soto Mayorga <DSOTO@ucs.indiana.edu>

Subject: The secret deals of Pres. Brand:  Listen my children and you shall
hear how President Brand sold out the queers.
 
	After more than two, long, years of negotiations, studies and red
tape, last June Indiana University announced that it would open an Office
of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Student Services (with a minuscule budget of
only $50,000.) on the Bloomington campus.  This was a totally done deal,
my friends.  Every protocol was observed, every university committee was
consulted, all the right procedures were taken, even the Board of Trustees
signed off on it.  As soon as the public announcement was made, however,
an ultra right-wing state senator, by the name of Woody Burton,( an
inveterate liar and neo-racist who, by the way, does not even hold a
bachelor's degree) started screaming bloody-moralistic-taxpayer murder (in
the mean time, of course, generating as much political milage for himself
as possible, this is an election year, you will recall) .
	The university insisted repeatedly that, despite all the negative
press unleashed by Burton, it was gong ahead with the office.  In the
interim, however, I.U. was "blessed" with a new President, Myles Brand (of
U. of Oregon fame).  Apparently hoping to curry favor with what he
perceived as a potentially hostile state legislature, Brand has now done a
behind-the-scenes deal with Burton to, at the very least, strip the
previously approved GLB office of its queer identity by changing the name
to The Office of Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment (shades of "don't ask,
don't tell").  It must be kept in mind that two full years of work on the
part of students, faculty and administration went into finally
establishing an Office of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Student Services on
the I.U. campus, and now the new President, Mr. Brand, without even so
much as consulting the university community, would overturn everything
just for the sake of placating a tin-pot state senator who has a big
mouth.  We're being sold down the river yet again for the sake of
political expediency! 
	We urge you, we beg you to voice your outrage at this betrayal by
contacting President Brand at the following E-mail address:
pres@indiana.edu.  Also, please write to President Myles Brand at: Indiana
University/ Office of the President/ Bryan Hall/ Bloomington, Indiana
47405.  As well, you may wish to contact Kenneth Gros Louis, University
Chancellor by E-mail at: grosloui@indiana.edu.  By the way, Gros Louis is
on our side. 
	Part of the rationale put forth by BrandUs office for this
back-stabbing is that they have received so much negative response to the
GLB Office, so please, please get your Rcards and lettersS moving.  We
need your support!!!
	Signed,
	Desperate in Bloomington,
	Gary Pool & Daniel Soto and the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Community
 
P.S. 
	Please forward a copy of your mail to us at dsoto@indiana.edu. 
 
P.P.S.
	Please feel free to forward this message to any sympathetic party you
may choose.      
 
 
 
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*  Daniel Soto Mayorga   *    Pledge of allegiance: "...with liberty and
*  DSOTO@INDIANA.EDU     *    justice for all"   Why is "all" so hard to
*  DSOTO@UCS.INDIANA.EDU *         understand ?
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