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- From: corwin+@CMU.EDU (Scott Safier)
- Subject: Re: discrimination at CMU
- In-Reply-To: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu's message of 17 Nov 92 01:20:26 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:29:02 GMT
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- In article <1eb9kqINNcrj@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
-
- Well, I did *hint* that I know about more than was posted
- about this, and from the other side. (I did say that I've
- been connected tangentially to the UCLA theater department
- for the last 15 years and that I know a former CMU faculty
- member (who's now on the UCLA faculty, shaking up UCLA's
- acting program the way he shook up CMU's 10 years ago).)
-
- Poor UCLA. If it is the person I am thinking of, I have heard only
- bad things about him.
-
- > Judging from the latter, it seemed to me at least plausible that
- > there was something extra-curricular going on here, and that gay men
- > had been singled out (in substantial numbers) as targets.
-
- I still think it hightly unlikely that the mere fact they're
- gay is what did them in.
-
- I don't. If it is the same person, he is quoted in the Theater Week
- article as saying, "there are certain young men whose sexual bent
- stands in their way of their talent."
-
- I was treading on
- eggshells throughout the argument, particularly as I could
- smell "I'm gonna sue!" in the air (even though the statute
- of limitations has run out).
-
- It is my understanding that no one associated with the incidents in
- 1981 are planning on suing.
-
- Scott
-