Thursday, May 21, 1959

I left home before 8 a.m., arriving in Salt Lake City at 9:00. Studied in the Church Office Building on matters to be presented to the two Executive Committees until nearly 11:00. Then attended a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Beneficial Life until 12:30, then got back to studying again about twenty minutes to 2:00, which was not long enough because I did not really get over all of my material.

Brother Moyle came in first and announced they could give us only a very few minutes today. This irritated me and I told him I had come all the way from Provo especially for this meeting and it was the last one of the year and we had a lot of things that needed to be acted on. I agreed I would go as fast as possible. Despite the fact that President Smith had already given me a similar warning when we called asking for a meeting. the Brethren, all of whom were present except Brother Brown, seemed to be quite relaxed and settled down for a real discussion on various matters for discussion were whether the Dean of Students should send questionnaires to bishops asking whether students had any propensity for stealing or immorality or anything of that kind. And the other question was the growing problem in our society of homosexuality.

These two problems interested the Brethren very, very much (they of course concern themselves more about these matters than some of the technical problems of education), and so we had a long discussion on them. I was informed that President McKay in one of the Temple meetings had said that in his view homosexuality was worse than immorality; that it is a filthy and unnatural habit. I was therefore instructed that whenever we had cases - of this kind, except where the students were really repentent and immediately

Thursday, May 21, 1959 (Cont'd)

working out their problems, that we should suspend them from the University. The question arose as to whether in suspending them from the University we “should, record the suspension and pass the record on to another university. It was decided that since the students confessed to our counselors, which was confidential, we would merely record "suspended" and inform the other universities that we could not tell them the reason for the suspension. This “would eliminate any libel suits against the University which, because of the confidential nature of the information, we might not be able to defend.

I was asked also to come up with a better plan to find out from bishops the information requested by the Dean of Students.

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