SAN FRANCISCO, CA: After meeting with students in August, University of Rhode Island (URI) President David M. Dooley acknowledged that discrimination is all too frequently an issue for the school’s LGBT community. Since that meeting, steps have been taken to alleviate discrimination, but some students insist there’s much more that needs to be done.

According to Brian Stack, president of the Gay Straight Alliance and a volunteer at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Center at URI, the range of discrimination endured by students has been wide. “We have had students throwing used condoms into students’ rooms, drawing offensive images on people’s doors and an epidemic of people yelling ‘faggots’ as they drive by the GLBT center,” Stack told The Providence Journal. A recent report from advocacy group, Campus Pride found that many LGBT individuals feel uncomfortable on campus. Approximately 25 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual students and university employees have been harassed due to their sexual orientation, as well as a third of those who identify as transgender, according to the study and reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The study asked 5,150 people at about 100 colleges about their experiences last year.