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said he will lobby the trustees to approve the plan.

"I made the decision [to implement the plan]. I will advocate for the decision. The university have a very thoughtful board of trustees, and I have full confidence in their judgment," Gee said.

"We just want an opportunity to study the policy," said trustees chairwoman Deborah Casto. "I think any time there is that much concern in the community, you take a closer look at the policy."

The trustees' decision probably will come in the fall, officials said.

Gee approved the policy to allow samesex couples in a committed relationship to live in Buckeye Village, a 396-apartment complex on campus. He said he anticipated the public reaction and does not object to the trustees' study.

The complex has been open only to students who are married or to single students with custody of at least one child. Lesbian and gay couples would have to

sign a statement of domestic partnership to be eligible, the university said. Heterosexual couples must produce a marriage certificate, and a single parent must show proof of child custody.

William H. Hall, the school's director of residence halls, said university officials began reviewing housing policy a couple of years ago to to bring it into compliance with an antidiscrimination policy that included lesbians and gays. He said the new policy was signed by Gee in early April.

Unmarried heterosexual couples have been the most vocal about their opposition. "They want to know why we would not extend the same benefit to them," Hall said. "But our priority is to extend housing to a group of people who traditionally have been discriminated against and had trouble finding housing in the community."

Ninety percent of the residents in the complex are graduate students, and 85 percent are international residents, said Malcolm Baroway, executive director of university communications.

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petent, credible and most articulate nominees we've presented to the Senate."

"The only real challenge... boils down to her sexual orientation and that has no bearing on her qualifications," Riegle said. "All the other arguments are a smoke screen.”

Riegle also criticized Helms' "damn lesbian" statement as being below the standards of the Senate. "There have to be some standards of decency," he said.

Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., in a floor speech endorsing Achtenberg, spoke for the first time of his openly-lesbian daughter.

"I have a personal reason for supporting this nomination," said the 74-year-old senator. "My daughter, Julia, is president of the Rhode Island Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights. I would not want to see her barred from a government job because of her orientation."

Both California senators, Democrats Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, spoke in favor of the nomination.

Boxer, using language similar to Riegle, called the criticism by senators "who don't

the Washington Blade that she was surprised by the personal nature of some of the statements by senators opposing her confirmation. "I found it very helpful to keep in mind that, although they used my name, it had more to do with their view of reality," she said.

Gregory King, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay lobby, said, "The Senate vote is a significant milestone in our community's history.

"Roberta Achtenberg has broken down a wall and made it possible for future nominees to be judged on the merits and not by prejudice," King said.

Feinstein called the arguments against Achtenberg "nasty and negative" and described the nominee as "a moderate public official, not an extremist public official."

"I am ready to move on and do the work that the president has asked me to do," Achtenberg said in a farewell news conference at San Francisco City Hall. "I can hardly wait to get started." She also thanked President Clinton for his support.

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private life."

Helms shot back, "She sure wasn't private when she was hugging and kissing last year in that parade in San Francisco," a reference to videotapes sent to every senator by the Christian Action Network, showing Achtenberg kissing her lover, Mary Morgan, in the 1992 San Francisco gay pride parade.

Pat Robertson, urging viewers of his 700 Club TV show to call, generated thousands of anti-Achtenberg calls to the Senate. After her confirmation, Achtenberg told

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St. Louis-An alderman has called for a referendum on that city's eight-month-old lesbian and gay civil rights law, saying it is too broad.

In October, the Board of Aldermen unanimously, and quietly, adopted one of the strongest gay-rights laws in the nation. It also included a clause in the law that prevents it from being repealed by referendum. Sheehan introduced a bill to repeal that clause.

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