The Student Bar Association at Washington University at St. Louis is standing by its decision not to recognize Law Students Pro-Life, despite national media exposure and admonishment by their own dean. At a meeting of SBA yesterday, Joel Seligman, dean of the law school, frankly informed the group that in denying recognition to Law Students Pro-Life, SBA had done "some real damage to the reputation of this school." Noting that prospective law students are likely to be discouraged by the doctrinaire and discriminatory behavior of SBA, Seligman characterized the group's actions as blatantly censorious: "We appear to have stomped our foot down and said there's only one ideologically and politically appropriate way to behave," he said. SBA, which recognizes specialized law student groups for black and Asian students, Christians, Jews, and feminists, as well as a humor publication and golf and softball clubs, maintains that Law Students Pro-Life is too narrowly focussed to warrant recognition. They now see themselves as the victims of media and administrative persecution, and are steadfastly maintaining their lack of integrity in the wake of the brutal assault on their high double standards. FIRE, which is leading the assault, simply remarks the monumental ignorance of SBA. As FIRE's president Alan Kors puts it, "What is very striking is to see this at a law school, for it to have no understanding of freedom of association."