I think people are cautious, but I think caution is different from resistance. Universities are slow to change. ... I think there is an institutional crisis when a new field emerges and comes into its own.

People have only just started to focus in on [sexuality studies], to see it as having sustained importance as something like gender and race. Understanding of the way culture works or thinking about history is really incomplete without a specific analysis of sexuality.

I think people won't like it at first. Change always comes with resistance. But I think it'll make it safer, definitely.

The balance will eventually change, but these numbers suggest the caution businesses have been showing is warranted. They also say we might be waiting until early 2004 before we see much stronger business investment.

What has gone on here in the past, I can never change. I would caution a rush to judgment on the process of winning the entire community. We believe it will happen over time.

A stop light not a caution light but a traffic light where they have to stop and let people turn, go straight, whatever.