"sexual orientation"

At Missouri State University there is a continuous hubbub about adding the words "sexual orientation" to the nondiscrimination policy. The local newspaper recently posted their opinion [1] that the university should go ahead and add the words citing other universities that have done so. The everybody else is doing it argument. I think the university should go the other direction. There is no need to even have a nondiscrimation policy. Nondiscrimation is federal law; so, having a policy that reiterates the law is pointless. There would be less printing costs and more space on documents to print useful information. The state and federal government require this crap. So, MSU has to either stick to their guns and only print what is required or jump on the bandwagon. I hope that the current administration does not give in to the demands for a policy change. The people who want such a change should have started with the law-makers then all the universities would have changed their policies in the same way and at the same time. Truly, I fault the administrators of those other universities for giving in so easily and coddling their students. They are not teaching their students to go to the source of a perceived problem. [1] http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060627/OPINIONS01/606270328/1091