UC Students May Now Be Asked to Declare Sexual Orientation on School Forms
- Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:07pm by
Erica Ritz
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In what represents a unique change to the college admission process, UC schools may now be asking incoming students to identify their sexual orientation upon accepting admission.
According to CBS Los Angeles , “The UC Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools had mixed reactions but agreed that the question would allow them to collect important statistical information. They recommended putting the question on the SIR forms instead of college applications to protect students’ privacy.”
Making the front page of the school’s campus newspaper, the news has been greeted with mixed reactions.
Photo from "Occupy Cal." UC students aren't shy about how they feel.
Queer Alliance Board Member Luis Roman wholeheartedly supports the proposal, saying it will bring necessary services to the LGBT community, which he believes is bigger than most of the school realizes. “I think the numbers are way bigger than we really imagine or know,” he said.
High school senior Brian Vo said he wouldn’t mind being asked, since the question will probably be optional. “I think it’s fine. They’re just collecting information to kind of cater to the population. It’s not obligatory — it’s voluntary — so it’s up to you whether you want to or not.”
But one student said that, despite the UC schools’ reputation as LGBT-friendly, “You can walk around and hear gay, you can hear f—-t, you can hear awful remarks, you can [see] stares at some of my self-identified male friends that wear heels, for example, that get harassed everyday…so, as much support as there is, there is definitely anti-queer backlash on this campus.”
According to the Daily Bruin, the school newspaper, the proposal has been approved to appear in forms to incoming students, but Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Lawrence H. Pitts will decide whether to pass the measure.
Watch CBS’s report, below:
(H/T: Drudge Report)
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Comments (58)
Mary Just
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 12:07pmOnce again we see the true evilness of this place and the evil the Liberal Progressive Demonrats who are in power.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 3:13pmThis will be funny! All those blond bimbos – where it says sex. They will after many moments of thinking write in “Occasionally.”
Report Post »JEFFERSONIAN
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 8:07pmUsually-North.
Report Post »drhunt
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 12:06pmBoy, has the environment at UC degenerated, or what?! It’s been a long time since I attended Davis, but the situation appears to be getting worse by the day. If I were now applying, and this question was asked, I would write, “I’m a pre-surgical transgender”, and see what response that would get. What a bunch of BS. The Regents are out-of-control.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:00amJust wait and see what happens when an applicant is asked to prove their response………..(c;
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 11:12amAs if California wasn’t already confused!
Report Post »hugo65hsv
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 10:37amWhat ever happened with the two Lesbians that bet up the Gay man.. Did they ever decide if it was a hate crime.. The government loves this type of information.. More data to confound, muddy, spin and complicate clear facts.. One only has to look at the tax code, laws and government agencies for proof.. It’s a college stick with information that pertains to such..
Report Post »Deepdiver58
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 7:57amI am invoking DADT. Thank you Bill Clinton.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 9:02amI always put black on any questionaires (including the census) If they say “you are white”…I say…Prove it…
Make them PROVE IT..They cannot..
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:45amActually, Baddoggy, we usually answer “Human” in our household when asked to identify our race.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 6:23amagenda 21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4
nobody listens.
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amerbur
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 5:37amI have only one thing to say to any of their questions about race or sex or religion – NOYB!!!!!
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 6:19amnoyb?
sorry am legally medicated.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 10:44amShouldn’t that be “NOYDB”?
Just curious…
And I totally agree.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 12:26amNear future….whatever you do…please don’t check that box that says American bc your life in college if you are lucky enough to get in there will be Hell.
Report Post »laserblast92
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 11:31pmAffirmative action in the making……
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 11:50pmYet another protected class. The gay agenda should love this.
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 11:15pmThis is a easy answer, either check other or leave blank. If there is a problem, get a lawyer.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 10:14pmHey Miss Fluke, one thing they didn’t teach you in ethereal land,Get a grip,but no guys on the pill can only wish…you are the epitamy of a zero.Eat ,it take it like a …..woman…What the problem is lawyers and their get rich quick piece of mind only makes it worse.You can can buy a 50 glove box of gloves for under 15 bucks.Where you go from there …Not my business
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:53pmWAIT a minute, is this in addition too, revealing your facebook password??????//
Report Post »Sr Newk
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:45pmHey UC, how about asking a question that means something, “Illegal Alien?”
Report Post »Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:51pmThey already do…so that they can give you in-state tuition.
Report Post »Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:45pmWait a minute, you can declare your sexual orientation? I thought you were born that way…
Report Post »wargames83
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 4:55amYou can also declare race and sex on a form. Does that mean that you think that you were not born a certain race or sex?
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:43pmThere has to be many check-boxes so to clarify which one you check, let’s have some definitions:
Transanything – anything goes as long as it’s current biological configuration is other than what you were born with.
Gay – can you swallow a beer bottle?
Lesbian – can you take a beer bottle?
Beer Bottle – normal as the bottlers intended, how did this get in here?
Liberal – anything goes except what mother nature intended, screw mother nature.
Unisexual – You like yourself very very much, like an actor or politician.
Asexual – Been a very long time you forget what was the question.
Un-sexual – not sure of what you are, repeat the above list until you like something.
Heterosexual – Illegal and disgusting according to Democrat principles, forget this one, you can’t go to school here.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 6:20amhahahaah , thank you …
made my day.
Report Post »Doug Piranha
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:39pmIf you listed your sexual orientation as “normal” would UC even know what that means?
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:30pmReally they shouldn’t gripe about this… I mean after all they have been cramming their lifestyle down or throats for a few years now. They want everyone to know that they are gay.. they want us to know about their sexual preferences, they want it shown on the screen.. they want tv shows to.. So really they shouldn’t whine when the schools want to know their sexual orientations. Matter o fact they should be just happier than a clam on a hot rock to spread their word.. I am gay,,, yooohooo! For most of us though.. we could really care less.. Somedays I wish they would just crawl back in their closets! God help us!
Report Post »TerryDo
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 10:40pmWould they knowingly put a male student in a room with a female student and would they assume the female student would just let that slide.
Report Post »Well if you sexual orientation is towards men, why should a hetersexual have to share a room with a homosexual or contrariwise.
MCDAVE
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 10:15amthis same group of people foolishly supports the socialist agenda..only in a republic do they have any rights at all..If Obama carries his plans for us to a conclusion,sharia law will kill all of them..Useful idiots…the entire lot of them.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:08pmThey will need an option for “Boo hoo, I just don’t know, that is why I came to college, to figure that out.”
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:39pmWhat boxes do you check if you are : 1/2 white, 1/2 black, 100% communist, 1/2 US citizen other half unknown, 1/2 Gay, but married to a beast, house White, religion 1/2 muslim 1/2 Christian. Hmmmm, getting into Harvard must suck. But getting elected to the Presidency no problem, not application for that.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:43pmTied to federal funds…if you get any federal funds the gov’t can then invoke a bunch of crap…previous administrations avoided stupid…but with Obama you can’t avoid stupid.
Report Post »wargames83
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 4:58amYeah, blame Obama for everything, including a decision that a school in California made. Do you think Obama is God and is everywhere at once? Did this article mention the President?
Report Post »dblaess
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 7:46amwargames83
Report Post »Posted on March 11, 2012 at 4:58am
Yeah, blame Obama for everything, including a decision that a school in California made. Do you think Obama is God and is everywhere at once? Did this article mention the President?
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why not? you blame Bush for everything. no I do not think Obama is God. Obama thinks Obama is God. I see since 3/11/12 you have not used your real name. George is this you again?
Micmac
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:20pmThen there should be boxes for eunic, autoerotic, closet flogger like Moonbeam Jerry Brown, etc.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:27pmForgot Pedophiles.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:32pmJust check the Democrat box.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:43pmBeastiality?
Rapist?
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:45pmNecrophiliac and nymphomaniac? Prostitute?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:37pma SLUT box to check
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:17pmThis may be worse than having to mark race on the entrance forms (which is a form of institutionalized racism)…
Someone who marks homosexual or bisexual or transexual or transgendered, they are either gay/bi/tran or a heterosexual looking for affirmative action and extra perks in the school….
If someone marks heterosexual they are either really hetero, or just lieing in the closet…
if someone doesn’t mark anything at all, they will be automatically considered homosexual or bisexual or transgendered, trying to hide their identity…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:30pmIf they claim they are gay, they should have to prove it. If they don’t, it’s false information and suspension imposed. How many male lesbians would sign up?
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:40pmI’m afraid to ask how they will make someone prove their sexual orientation….
Make them watch different types of porn or lingerie and underwear catalogs? While looking for a reaction?
Make them write an entrance essay about their past love life…?
Something else?
I‘m not sure there are any tests that wouldn’t come across being sexual harrassment…
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 10:53amI remember reading an article a number of years ago about a particular college ( don’t remember which one, but it was a well known Ivy League) where the students would declare themselves bi-sexual just so they could get through the four years and then they went on their separate ways peaceably with degree in hand. The reason I remember it was because I thought that it was so sad that a student had to make a statement like that and obviously lie about something that was none of the college’s business just to get their degree.
The other thing it does is skew statistics because if someone looks at that college and says, Wow, 82 percent of the students are bi-sexual, that means that this percentage over here is much higher, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da…
Report Post »NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:16pmDr. King taught us that the color of our skin didn’t matter, now we have to tell what race we are. Now we have to tell our sexual orientation? Like hell!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:15pmOne more move to force upon all of us a lifestyle some find abhorrant.
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:54pmSnowleopard,
In the near future, these kind of “selective” information will be used against Christians and conservatives…..the new black is discrimination and hatred upon whites, conservatives, Christians, law abiding citizens, morals, hardworking people, preppers, gun owners…..(Off course Jews, unfortunately, they are always part of the list).
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:10pmWill there be a box for them to check for the choice of “confused?”
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 11:14amI like it, I like it.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 8:10pmYou totally KNOW that the “LGBT” folks will get preferences of some sort. I’m waiting for all of the “straight” guys to declare themselves “lesbian — but trapped in a man’s body”
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 9:06pmYou bet they will….that’s this thing about……lowering the standards, dividing, free loads, “I’m a victim”, participation trophy……..I wouldn’t be surprised if I find a parking space only for LGTB at the mall in, let’s say, 2015….
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