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Secretary of State Bill Bradbury speaks at the EMU Amphitheater to encourage students to vote. “If you want candidates to care about
your issues, you’ve got to vote," Bradbury said Thursday afternoon before helping register students himself.
NEWS BRIEF
Oregon Secretary of State
asks students to vote
Oregon Secretary of State Bill Brad
bury in a speech Thursday at the EMU
Amphitheater urged students to regis
ter to vote, signaling the start of
ASUO's voter registration campaign.
"The reason I'm here today is be
cause I think it's critically important
for students to register and critically
important to vote," Bradbury said.
Bradbury told students that few
young people were participating in
elections and that the median age of
a voter is older than 40.
Bradbury said 24 out of 100 Orego
nians voted in the 2002 primary elec
tions, adding that only 12 of those 24
were younger than 60 years of age.
"If you want candidates to care
about your issues, you've got to vote,"
Bradbury said.
The secretary of state said he was
concerned with the condition of high
er education in Oregon, citing the loss
of funding for schools in the 2003
2005 state budget.
"It's bad for education right now,
but it could be much worse," Bradbury
said, referring to the potential special
election regarding the Oregon Legisla
ture's $800 million tax package. If tax
hike opponents collect 50,420 signa
tures by Nov. 25, voters will decide in a
special Feb. 3 election whether to im
plement the tax package.
Bradbury dosed his speech by re
minding students to register to vote and
encourage their peers to do the same.
"You have a chance each election to
affect the issues that can change your
life," Bradbury said.
After his speech, Bradbury helped
register students to vote at the ASIJO
Fall Street Faire and held a "meet and
greet" session at the ASIJO office.
— Sho Ikeda
COMING OUT
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this nature in Washington, D.C., and
various activists and organizations
soon designated the day as an annual
national event, according to the Hu
man Rights Campaign Foundation
Web site.
At the University, community
members and various organizations
including Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays and the
HIV Alliance will discuss LGBT issues.
Student groups including the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Queer Al
liance will also be represented.
Michael Eaves, LGBTQA co-direc
tor, said the day will feature an open
mic session for those who wish to
speak about their experiences. A
dance, which is free and open to
LGBT students and supporters, will
also be held in the EMU Walnut
Room from 9 p.m. to midnight.
The LGBT community also cele
brated coming out with other events
throughout the week including a
book and video drive, a residence hall
social and a film night. The events
were sponsored by the Office of Stu
dent Ufe and the LGBTQA, among
others. Martin said the day is intended
to show support for the LGBT com
munity on campus and those who
may be struggling with coming out.
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"It's easier to be strong and coura
geous to come out when you have
the support of others around you,"
she said. "For some folks the process
is very hard, and for some it's very
easy. We come out in different ways."
The ninth annual "Outlist," pub
lished as an advertisement in the
Emerald today, is also intended to
recognize LGBT members. It lists the
names of students, faculty, staff and
alumni who chose to publicly ac
knowledge that they are members or
allies of the LGBT community.
Eaves said the list is important be
cause a history of LGBT members are
being "hidden and tucked away." I le
added, however, that the list does
tend to stir up controversy.
"When it does come out eveiy year,
generally there's commentary on
whether it's a good idea or not," he
said. "Not being visible is often about
safety for some people."
People may fear repercussions
such as harassment and discrimina
tion if they have their names pub
lished, he added.
Eaves is on the list this year, and
he said seeing it made him feel
more comfortable when he was
new to campus.
"It was really important to me as a
freshman to see that there were other
queer students out there," he said.
Graduate student Jason Wicklund
said he didn't feel comfortable hav
ing his name published in the list
when he first came to the University
because he didn't want to be known
only for his gay identity.
"1 was initially concerned more
about sort of losing my personal
identity to just this sort of label to be
ing gay, * he said, adding that he later
changed his mind when he realized
that going public helped him with
the process of self-acceptance.
Senior Matthew Strickland said he
chose not to be on the list because he
has already dealt with coming out,
and now he finds different ways to
express himself.
"I'm already out," he said. "It's not
a declaration for me anymore."
But senior Sarah Blustein said
there wouldn't be many names on
the list if everyone had that mentality.
She said that although she has been
out for sometime, she chose to pub
lish her name on the list to set an ex
ample for new students who may not
realize that there is a strong LGBT
community on campus.
"For me it's about doing that to
show new students around campus
that we are here," she said.
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