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...weeks ago, Boston University’s administration demanded that Dr. James Tracy, headmaster at Boston University Academy—a Boston University-funded prep school—abolish its two-year old Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). The students of the Academy and Boston University alike have decried the elimination of the GSA as another example of Boston University’s conservative—and often controversial—ideas on education...
Boston University’s claim that the program “encourages underage sex” is ill-conceived. The GSA and other similar organizations at schools nationwide promote neither risky behavior nor a specific sexual orientation. Despite the feelings of more conservative voices, which argue that the mere presence of such groups promotes promiscuity, many disagree, as long as tolerance and understanding—not exploration and promotion—are the focus of their missions. The GSA fits the profile of a program that is beneficial to adolescents. Sexual development is difficult and awkward for all teenagers...
...meantime, GSA Administrative, DeanMargot N. Gill says she and Wolff are continuingto encourage all 47 programs of the GSAS to pursuemore frequent contact with students and moreregular reporting to students about theirprogress...
Citing the club as a "major issue during an election year," Peterson said concerns about the existence of the GSA led to a March 1996 Salt Lake City school board ban on all non-curricular activities...
...understood that the GSA had to be allowed to continue--that it was an organization which brought people together," she said...