What issues do we as GLBT students, supporters, and friends face on Earlham's campus?
Harassement does exist even in the warm fuzzy liberal land of Earlham. These issues need to be addressed, talked about, and acted on. What are other issues? What can we do about them? What are we doing? Let's keep this discussion going.
If you would like to share your experiences of life at Earlham, click here. We must raise awarenesses of just what is going on on campus and what has gone on in the past. If you have graduated, tell us what it was like when you were a student, what it was like leaving Earlham, etc. If you are a student tell us your expereinces of coming out at Earlham or of coming to Earlham knowing your orientation. Whatever your story, feel free to share it...
Issues on Campus
Pride Month, April 2001 Three flags removed from flagpole on the Heart, including the Pride Flag, the Pan-African Flag, and the American Flag. Click HERE to read one of the resonse of the Black Leadership Action Coalition (BLAC).
February, 2001 Harassment? Hate Crimes? Homophobia? Welcome to Earlham folks. This past week showed the stuff we are made of. I am talking about the removal of over 100 signs in less than five days. These signs were advertising for the opening in Teetor House (the campus GLBTQ Center). The perpetrators were so thorough as to (after already ripping down the same sign more than once) tear down smaller signs-reading "You have just committed a Hate Crime. You are in direct violeation of Earlham's nondiscrimination policy"- which were posted behind the orginals.
What are we doing? What kind of concrete action can turn this experience into campus wide education and awareness campaign. Come to Teetor House on Sunday, Feb. 11 at 4pm. to discuss these issues.
Click to see the front page article in The Earlham Word
Fall, 2000 Earlham DOES have a nondiscrimination clause on sexual orientation. It was passed this fall and is contained in the Community Principles and Practices. The Respect for Persons section reads,
"It is a long-standing Quaker belief that all persons have available to them an inner spirit of Truth. Quakers have named this spirit, variously, "The Inner Light," "The Christ Within," "The Inward Teacher," or "God’s Voice Within." Those of us who are Friends may prefer one of these names to another. Those of us who are not Friends, including persons of other faiths and persons of no religious faith, find alternative ways to express respect for persons.From this belief follows an assumption of equality of all persons and grounds for respecting all persons. We aspire to be a community whose members act with regard for the intellectual, physical and emotional well-being of others, seeking to find mutual respect and happiness in our relationships with persons of every race, ethnicity, class, religious preference, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation, or age, even seeking to respect persons removed by time and place."