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After rejecting several offers of funds for a scholarship to benefit gay students, Stanford University two weeks ago accepted gifts to-talling $2040 solicited by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford (GLAS) to establish a scholarship for a male medical student who has shown a commitment to serving the gay community.
The university rejected the previous scholarship offer, a $500 grant donated by Dr. Robert Ragland, because "it stipulated that the recipient had to be openly gay." The GLAS scholarship only asks that "preference" be given to a student who is committed to serving the gay community.
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"We saw a situation where the university was in a position of turning down a scholarship directed toward the gay community. We didn't feel that should reflect Stanford University's position in this view. We wanted to come up with a scholarship that would meet their reasonable objections to the Ragland scholarship and see that would be acceptable," said graduate student Doug Bemard a member of the GLAS steering committee.
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