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Oregon Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life SHALOM! Free Shabbat services and dinner Fridays at 6:00 p.m Stop by anytime. 1059 Hilyard, 343-8920 Check our website for a full listing of events: www.oregonhillel.org Campus Ministry Grace Lutheran Church 18th & Hilyard (just west of campus) Sundays at Grace Worship services: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Thursdays: Student Dinners: 6 pm Bible Study: 7 pm Grief support group: 7 pm Contact Dave at 342-4844 or david@glchurch.org www.glchurch.org ’t^S905l.(!) Orthodox Christianity DiSCOVCr the historic church of the New Testament. The faith of 2000 years, unaltered and unchanged by innovations or reform. For more information contact St. George Church 683-3519 WW n _ w w _ *. _ ____ _ “So powerful is the light of unity that ''S? ip* BAHA I r AITH it can illuminate the whole earth." - Baha’u’llah Sunday Devotionals, 10 am Also childrens classes and adult sessions at Baha’i Faith Center • 1458 Alder Street To learn about the Baha’i Faith and our activities in the o Eugene/Springfield area call 344-3173 or 1-800-22-CJN1TE or visit our website at www.bahai.org. 025061391 C»mP«f ' I Sr Thomas Morf. NEWMAN CENTER Feathers tiffled? Duck into Newman. St. Thomas More Newman center... Catholic Campus Ministry Social Connections Coffeehouses Student Dinners Sports Events Faith Community Engaging Masses Meaningful Retreats Guest Speakers Societal Commitment Mexico Mission Trip Charity Fundraisers Social Service Projects Sunday Student Mass, 7:30 pm Wednesdays, 9:00 pm Midweek Social & Student Mass End of ttie year dinner June 3rd, 7 pm 1850 Emerald Street (south of Hayward Field) • 346-4468 Visit our web site at newmanctr-uoregon.org or send us an e-mail to newman@newmanctr-uoregon.org A product of the Oregon Daily Emerald Classifieds. For more information call 541-346-4343. Make History in Summer Session 2005... Group Satisfying • Western Civilization • United States History • Intro to American Environmental History • And more Electives • American West in Film • History of U.S. Immigration • Latin America • And more 022454 Also See: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~history/courses/summer2005/summer2005.htm It'd another beautiful day in paradioe. IRISH PUB Mondayo • Free pizza with a pint 6pm - 12am Fridays Everyday • Free pool • Large PBR Pitcher $5.00 • Hot food • 25c pool 2.841 Willamette • 484-1727 re§on Ballroom Dance Club presents: <2/n (c^fcah ^^Detona A Formal Masquerade Bali Friday, May 27 th Lesson at 7:30, Dancing 8:30-11:30 EMU Ballroom $8 students, SlO community Price includes foxtrot/waltz lessons by Tim Bennet from Portland For more information, call 346-6025 or £0 to lmllroom.uoregon.edu Summer 2005 ENROLL IN: S3 £ African Music Mus 407 (42340) 3pm Mus 507 (42340) 3pm Instructor: Dr. Don Addison Home: 344-4758 daddison@darkwing.uoregon.edu Native American Music Mus 407 (42341) 1pm Mus 507 (42349) 1 pm Mon-Thu rs June 20-July 15 Hill-Meyer: She sees more than 2 genders Continued from page 1A book “Getting Bi.” The rapt audi ence, which included many bisexu als, gathered in a stuffy EMU Suite 34, home of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisex ual, TVansgender, Queer Alliance. The pieces explored the lack of suit able language in English to address the complex issues surrounding gender identity, especially for bisexuals. Hill-Meyer said the problem is “this sense of not having the language to communicate what’s going on for me, having an idea in my head but no way to communicate that to other people.” Hill-Meyer said that sex is often equated with gender but that sexual orientation is not all about sex. In stead, she and other bisexuals find many different factors influencing sex ual attraction. For example, Hill-Meyer said she was pretty sure she was a straight male in high school, but in college she be came less sure of herself. “More realistically, I was 95 per cent attracted to feminists, and there weren’t any feminist men at my high school,” she said. “That’s what I’m really attracted to.” Instead of being attracted to men and women, as people assume when Hill-Meyer tells them she is bisexual, she said the more gender-deviant a person is and the more in between the two sexes, the more she will be attracted to them, which is why “bi sexual” is an often confounding term for Hill-Meyer. It suggests only two genders, when really she sees many more, she said. A language has sprung up within the LGBTQA community to describe these different genders. While re searching her thesis and trying to find one word that perfectly de scribed herself, Hill-Meyer said she discovered a Web site with more than 150 words for various gender identities. Still, she said she was not satisfied because none of these words was a perfect fit. bne said it is aitticuit to accept a unique term because most support comes from like-minded people with a similar gender identity. To choose a unique and specific desig nation could mean expulsion or even condemnation from a once supportive group, she said. “It’s about having a community, a culture, an outlook to share with oth ers,” she said. Having never found that perfect word, Hill-Meyer said she realized the best recourse was to have none at all. By not pigeonholing herself, her gender could fluidly adjust over time, as it already had, she said. This fluidity extends beyond lan guage into the culture and commu nity that are often the true determi nant of a person’s gender identity. Graduate student Alelhia Hostetter said many audience members felt reti cent when trying to address the issues Hill-Meyer raised. “It’s hard to describe, the fact that it’s hard to address the issues that come up around language and identi ty,” Hostetter said. Though Hill-Meyer emphasized throughout the reading that no one word can sum up the many gender issues, an audience member’s shirt seemed emblematic of the na ture of the issues. A woman with close-cropped gray hair and glasses wore a royal blue long-sleeved T-shirt. In a cursive black script it read: “Complicated.” “40 years of Quality Service” 342-2912 I 2025 Franklin Blvd. I Eugene, Oregon, 97402 022082
