"There's nothing here to say that it'll be more successful with a deadline that without," Steven Chung '01.
First-year member Fred Smith proposed an amendment that would have allowed the grant money to go towards any "anti-hate" measure rather than specifically concentrating on homophobia.
The council voted to debate the amendment, overruling a decision by President Fentrice D. Driskell '01 that the motion was not germane.
"There are a lot of kinds of hate we should be fighting," council secretary John F. Bash '03 said. "We can do a lot more good by combating hate as a whole."
Supporters argued that the incidents that prompted the challenge grant were too old to be salient to students anymore.
Boulerice responded that homophobia on campus was just as present as ever.
"We don't need to wait for something to happen. We need to take action now," he said.
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