Published: April 1, 1996

All Or Nothing

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Instead of giving a gay student group access to one of its high schools, the Salt Lake City school board took draconian measures in February, voting to eliminate all extracurricular clubs at the school beginning next fall.

Board members said they were constrained by the Equal Access Act to either recognize the proposed Gay-Straight Alliance at the city's East High School or eliminate all clubs that were not curriculum-related. The 1984 federal law prohibits districts that allow some clubs from banning others for...