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Saint Louis University,
Where Knowledge Touches Lives
The University,
in its Jesuit mission, is committed to caring for its students’
“whole person” and to graduate women and men of competence and
conscience.
Saint Louis University is a place of higher education, a place
where students come expecting tolerance and the chance to expand
their understandings and views of the world around them. SLU is
a place where "differences
make the difference." Our diverse undergraduate student
population is an important part of the learning environment… for
everyone.
While we will never know exactly how many GLBT people there are,
the most educated estimation is 1 in 10. Saint Louis University
has over 7,000 undergraduates, that’s 700 GLBT people. Even if
you want to be more conservative with your estimation, say 1 in
20, that still amounts to over 350 people. It is very unlikely
that anybody on campus doesn’t have a gay roommate, classmate,
teammate or friend. Remember homosexuality is an invisible
diversity.
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"Saint Louis
University has an educational and pastoral responsibility
to work with those who are struggling with their
sexuality, and to fight the ignorance, prejudice and
discrimination that gay people face."
Lawrence
Biondi, S.J.
University President |
>SUPPORT ON
CAMPUS
The most important thing to remember as a gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender, questioning student or an ally is that
you are not alone. It may be difficult to see sometimes but the
University supports you through:
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The Rainbow
Alliance
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The Cross
Cultural Center
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Student Health
& Counseling
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Residence Life
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Student Life
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Campus Ministry
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Most
importantly, your friends
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O
LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully
made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
(Ps. 139: 1-3, 13-14, 23) |
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