University Dean Quits Over Same-sex Benefits

[Lisaben2619]

(Madison, Wisconsin) When Wisconsin lawmakers last month voted against providing domestic partner benefits to University of Wisconsin System employees it was the final straw for University of Wisconsin-Madison dean of students Luoluo Hong.

This week Hong announced she was leaving the university.

"When I came here three years ago, Wisconsin was on the cutting edge of civil rights for lesbians, bisexuals and trans-genders," Hong, who is straight, told the Journal Sentinel. "That legacy has not been my experience."

Hong who is married and does not need domestic partner benefits has accepted a job as a dean of student affairs at Arizona State.

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[marmar]

1. Good for her...

These mindless hatemongers in governments (my state, Michigan, included) will just continue to exacerbate the brain drain and cause future economic dilemmas for their states. Love makes you blind, but hate makes you blinder.

[gizmo1979]

2. We are the onlt school in the big ten

without said benefits.We're going to lose some very good people over something as stupid as this.