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Oregon State University got a unanimous
thumbs-up from the student fee committee
March 14.
The vote was the first of several steps in the
approval process for any new program asking for
a portion of student fees. The centers annual
budget would he $7,000, about 45 cents per stu­
dent a year.
The issue has divided the campus, said Beth
McGinnis, a member of the Rainbow Continu­
um, the university’s only gay group. More than
350 people showed up to the Memorial Union
Ballroom for the meeting. When the committee
finally voted 7 to 0 in approval, supporters stood
up and applauded.
“Oregon State University touts that it is a
place for open discourse on a variety of issues,
from racial profiling to the controversy over
abortion," the Rainbow Continuum said in a
statement read during a press conference. “How­
ever, if we would censor one group’s views, what
does that mean?”
O SU College Republicans have been partic­
ularly vocal about their opposition to the center,
McGinnis says. Vice president Mike Kingsella
told The Oregonian, “Being gay or lesbian should
be an individual decision, not pushed on an
insecure student, especially by an organization
funded by the student body.”
About 100 students belong to the Republi­
can group. After the vote, members told The
Barometer, the university’s student daily newspa­
per, that they have resolved to fight even hard­
er to keep the center from gaining final
approval.
But proponents have received surprising sup­
port on the notoriously conservative Corvallis
campus. During a recent quasi-protest, they
raised $150— 15 cents each from 1,000 people.
T h e graduate and undergraduate student
senates now will consider the proposal. If
both bodies approve it, university president
Paul Riser will review it before a final deci­
sion is made.
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and 17.
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and speakers who
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C hallenge A nnounced
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he Gay and Lesbian Victory Foundation
announced a challenge gift o f $100,000 to
the Victory Fund if its members raise that
amount
during
2001. The political
action committee
works to increase
the
number
of
openly gay and les­
bian public officials
at the local, state ■
and national level. 1
Portland busi­
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Fund founder, made
the announcement
Terry Bean
last fall during the
Victory Fund’s “Honoring Our Founders”
brunch in Washington, D.C. The challenge is
dedicated to former board member Chuck
Holmes, who died last September.
To contribute call Jennifer Jones at
202-842-8679, ext. 304, or send e-mail to
jjones@victoryfund. org.
B uyer B eware
A
gay-positive Internet site, Psychothera-
pesource.com, warns that other mental
health-related sites are not so gay-friendly.
“If you are seeking psychological counseling
online, you need to he very cautious,” says CEO
Lynne Freeman, Ph.D. “These sites list issues
they address. It is important that the words ‘gay’
and ‘lesbian’ appear among the selections.”
If those words are not there, Freeman says
the online counselor might have no experience
working with sexual minorities or might use
reparative therapies to try to change the client’s
sexual orientation.
She says Barbara Adams, a therapist who
operates an online counseling busi­
ness via Therapyoffice.com based in
Grants Pass, admonished her in an
e-mail for providing services to
homosexuals: “To
have a special sec­
tion touting gay
and lesbian ser­
vices is highly dis­
tasteful and un­
professional, to say
the least. Your pro­
motion of deviant
behavior and the re­
verse discrimina­
tion towards the
mainstream het­
erosexual commu­
nity is revolting."
Adams has de­
nied that she or
someone in her office
wrote any letter. “I
don’t find personal
belief systems to he
professionally relevant,
in terms of treatment of
mental disorders— for
instance, schizophrenia
would he treated the same
way (other than theoretical
orientation variances) in a