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Lauren Wimer Senior Photographer
Senior Sarah Blustein tells her coming out story in the EMU Amphitheater on Monday afternoon as part of LGBTQA’s Pride Week.
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He added that, overall, the Uni
versity campus is accepting of the
LGBTQA community.
But senior women and gender
studies major Toby Hill-Meyer said
the campus isn't free of prejudice,
and a small section of the student
body is sometimes hostile toward
sexual minorities.
"I remember when I was handing
out flyers for the drag show and
someone said, 'Don't touch me, 1
don't want to get AIDS,'" Hill-Mey
er said.
Minor, too, remembers being sin
gled out and put down for his sexu
ality when teenagers screamed ob
scenities at the LGBT students
marching to South Eugene High
School for the national Day of Si
lence on April 21.
But this is not what Pride Week is
about, he said.
Pride Week is meant to help les
bian, gay, bisexual and transsexual
students "feel free about them
selves," Vaifale said. He added that
even though he only recently came
• Monday, May 17 - Pride rally
and march at 1 p.m. in the EMU
Amphitheater. Lecture by self
proclaimed sexology expert
Carol Queen at 7 p.m. in the
EMU Fir Room.
• Wednesday, May 19 -
Presentation by activist, writer,
performer Imani Henry at
7 p.m. in the EMU Fir Room.
• Thursday, May 20 - LGBTQA
brown bag discussion at 11 a.m.
in the LGBTQA office in Suite 34
of the EMU. Weekly meeting at
6 p.m. in the LGBTQA office.
• Tuesday, May 25 - Drag
show and dance at 7:30 p.m.
in the EMU Amphitheater.
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out, he feels safe on campus, and all
the people he's gotten to know have
been very supportive.
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at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
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the Center for Defense Information, a
Washington research group. "But that
doesn't mean he's there for the long
haul."
Rumsfeld's biggest assets are his fine
ly honed sense of how to handle a po
litical crisis — and some unusually for
tunate timing. Corbin credits
Rumsfeld's apology to Congress for the
prison abuses as "a key turning point"
in this drama. So was his Thursday sur
prise visit to the troops in Baghdad.
The secretary continued damage
control Monday, making a carefully
staged hour-long appearance before
the conservative Heritage Founda
tion's Presidents' Club, a collection of
about 300 of its top donors.
He spoke briefly, took 11 questions
from an adoring audience and none
from the media, and tackled every issue
with the grit, self-assurance and self
deprecation that's been his trademark.
He started with the prison abuse
scandal: "That some of the guards
abused those Iraqis who were in our
custody and were our responsibility was
truly a body blow. As we saw some of
those pictures in the Pentagon and
looked at each other's faces, you could
feel the shock that we felt and disap
pointment that some in our country's
uniform could sully it by that behavior."
He insisted the governing council
would not be intimated and winning
the peace in Iraq would take time.
But style may not be enough to sur
vive, and his bigger ally may be the
calendar. Though there is recent
precedent for presidents to replace key
diplomatic and Pentagon figures in
the middle of re-election campaigns,
it's risky business because it's seen as
symbolic of the incumbent's uncer
tainty over how to manage a war.
July and August are also difficult
times to toss aside Rumsfeld, because
the political spotlight will be on the
nominating conventions — and Bush
hardly wants to spark a frenzy of fresh
stories about turmoil at the Pentagon
when he's trying to sell his candidacy.
Rumsfeld's tenure may be most tied
to something he cannot control: over
all Iraqi stability. And that stability
needs to be viewed through domestic
audience and international eyes.
"Is it possible the country will revert
to mayhem? Perhaps," Rumsfeld said
Monday at Heritage. "There will be
both success and failure." The most
noteworthy trouble internationally —
and perhaps in this country — is the
Pentagon's penchant for secrecy.
(c) 2004, The Hartford Courant.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.