Dainty Mess

Marquette University students are protesting one of the biggest faculty events of the year Thursday evening in solidarity with a prospective dean whose job offer was allegedly rescinded because she is a lesbian.

Ph.D. student Margaret Steele told The Advocate Thursday that Seattle University professor Jodi O’Brien was offered a position as dean of the Catholic university’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.

“Some of our sources within the faculty have told us that the withdrawal is due to complaints from donors, people in the law school, and people in the theology department,” she said. “A lot of us feel that this is a very bad decision and a clear violation of Marquette’s nondiscrimination policy.”