Is nothing sacred or private anymore? All this to pander to maybe 2% of the population? Guess it is clear where their academic philosophy lies. Mamas don´t let your babies grow up to be Hawkeyes.

What´s next - ask them about their eating, sleeping and bowel movement habits?

I suspect that if you answer "none of your business" you will not be admitted.

Affirmative action of a different color? Or perhaps the pedophiles on the faculty don´t want to work for their sexual gratification?

Government applications of all kinds shouldn´t ask any questions about race or now, sexual orientation. If a person applies for a government benefit is should be administered on a color and sex blind method.To do otherwise is a violation of equal protection against heterosexuals and white conservatives

I despise whole idea of diversity,it´s a liberal creation based on skin and not diversity of thought which would really enrich the school´s environment. All this crap leads to reverse racism which the SC has rejected many time. Affirmative action smoothly evolved into diversity which is an absurd concept. Why don´t these universities have quotas for conservative students?

If gays qualify for college admissions it should be merit based. I don´t see how being gay alone brings diversity to the table.This is the reason Obama took over college loans for idiotic social engineering which does the student no good at all.

the left thinks a merit based society is unfair.If you´re a failing individual,liberal utopinaism gives you equal standing a with an achiever.

The only reason for gun registration is eventual gun confiscation.

The only reason for recording sex, age, race and sexual orientation is for segregation.

And how does asking a question ´send a strong signal?´

U of Iowa must have a large grant to track GLBT admissions. Nowadays, you have to be out of the norm to get attention and assistance.
I´m conducting a personal experiment when dealing with utilities, bureaucrats and communications companies. If I need help I initially pose as AnyNormalPerson...and I get automated voicemails or eventually an inflexible agent who´s unwilling to provide options about my requests.
I then make a second call to the same office. I "become" a minority of some type and whammo! Within minutes, I am connected to the most compassionate, caring rep who will bust a gut trying to demonstrate how wonderful Comcast (the water department, tax assessor etc ) is, and I get special assistance AND follow up calls to be sure I was treated fairly.

asking for personal information to supposedly ´improve´ the experience or what ever cockamanie excuse is collection of information that no public institution (or private one, for that matter) needs to have access to. are you gay? do you have guns? do you have a religious afflilation? lots of questions that no one needs to have access to the answers.

What if every applicant answered "yes" to the gay question? Give them what they want, in spades.

How clever..."Are you gay?"...answer...
"yep...and happy too"

#9 beat me to it. Answer "yes" and get special rights and better grades, not to mention all sorts of opportunities to file grievances.

If an applicant says they are black, it is obvious that they are. How exactly does one prove that they are gay?

More info to pigeon hole more people. Labeling people, counting them, etc., is a dirty, insidious business. It gets you the opposite of E Pluribus Unum.
I remember going to U.C.L.A. in the late ´60´s and never questioning why a Black or Chicano person was in my classes. By the time I graduated, these groups were by and large hunkered down in groups, often isolated, many secretly in over their heads academically, and you wondered what kinds of breaks they got to even be there. Divisive stuff. Label on, Lefties! Break out the gays now in your misguided attempts to force inclusiveness.

#5, a quick history lesson. Back in the 1950s, the mantra was equal opportunities for blacks. But when that didn´t produce enough black hires or admissions, the 1960s and LBJ brought us affirmative action. And when affirmative action did not bring about the amount of admissions/hires, the mantra switched to diversity, for diversity´s sake, that there was strength through diversity, that diversity, by itself was valuable.
This final position, which will be with us forever, will prevail. Diversity for diversity´s sake. And if anyone has two brain cells to rub together, that person will realize that in real live, we avoid diversity wherever possible, because it is discomfiting.
But the myth will be perpetuated.
Except for basketball and football.

Excellent way to take back word usage #10. I am going to have to try and remember that one for future use.

Make them register with the police too. We need names and addresses... /s

Watch how fast they run back into the closet.

Homosexual behavior is a choice. Straight today, gay tomorrow, straight again on day after. There´s nothing genetic about it.

Is there a check box for LUG (Lesbian Until Graduation)?

Sadly, to get admitted, you are probably going to have to answer ´´yes´´ to that question.

You know the whole purpose of that question is to make sure that every homosexual that applies gets accepted. That way they can honestly claim that 60% of their freshmen are homosexuals, so that must be the % of homosexuals in the general population of this country. Which, of course, the MSM will immediately start to report as the truth!!!