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Junior Ellen versity’s tranquil winter term was Weigant, LBGT Task Force director, says a Col lege Republican leader admitted in a private interrupted by one of the biggest controversies to hit the campus in meeting April 11 that the group is masking its years. The notoriously conserva moral and religious objection with rhetoric about fiscal issues. tive Corvallis college is in the midst of a heated public debate regarding its sexual minorities “What got me was their reason to oppose,” she says of the organization, which couldn’t community. The Barometer, the university’s daily newspa be reached for comment. “They said anyone per, reported Feb. 27 that an upcoming student could get a center: left-handed...disabled fee committee meeting would consider funding people.... They tried to make it sound as a Queer Resource Center. The $7,000 alloca ridiculous as possible.” tion would provide for part-time staff, office sup Johnson says the GOP group doesn’t repre plies, advertising, books and other resources, sent all Republican students. That fact has costing each student about 15 cents a term. caused some resentment on campus, he adds. It would he housed in the Women’s Center “They are far right,” Johnson says. “They are near the campus library, according to the pro a very small minority hut a very vocal minority.” posal. Supporters said the demand for informa Junior Carolyn Dishman is co-director of the tion, referrals and resources had stretched vol Rainbow Continuum, the university’s student unteers thin. gay group. She is outraged that the College The newspaper also reported that student Republicans expect sexual minorities to offer body vice president Chala Barrington spoke proof that the campus is oppressive. out against the center in a letter to the com “Have they felt unsafe?” Dishman asked. mittee: “One thing that has to be realized is if “Have they ever walked through campus and you are in the LB G T lifestyle, you are self- worried V' identified. The consequences come with that The Queer Resource Center passed its largest self-identification.” hurdle March 14, when the student fee commit Barrington, who is African American, wrote tee unanimously approved the proposal. More that gays and lesbians do not have the same sta than 350 people attended the meeting. tus as ethnic minorities on the O SU campus. The proposal now faces both graduate and Outraged students started sending letters to the undergraduate senates. Votes are expected editor admonishing her and demanding her res sometime this spring. ignation; others defended her, expressing their University president Paul Risser and the belief that homosexuality is a choice. board of higher education must approve the The barrage of submissions continued to center before the funds are released. He has pour in for 17 days, and the paper printed almost remained silent about the controversy and every one, editor in chief Scott Johnson says. says he will not comment until the proposal Soon, the controversy caught the mainstream reaches his desk. media’s attention. Johnson says that Risser never has vetoed Barrington didn’t have to stand alone in a program that has cleared the approval opposition for long. The O SU College Republi process and that he is a strong supporter of cans, a student-supported group in the Office for „ tifVersity.The editor estimates, that between Student Involvement, blasted the proposal on 6(3 percent and 80 percent of students sup moral grounds. port the center. “O SU is highly revered in our state as a place The university’s final exam week and subse of strong values and strong moral convictions,” quent spring break put the issue on hold. president Lee Vasche told The Barometer. “This Although students are back on campus, Johnson is going to tamish Oregon State University’s says the issue has not resurfaced. IPl O pen M inds , O pen D o o rs ?
