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lune 3. 2005 • jUSt OUt 9 rTTTTTTTn^l j i et c’s briefs r/ r JT 2005 CLEARANCE AND CONSTRUCTION SALE HUNDREDS of suban» to choose from NEW 2005 SU8ARU LEGACY WAGON 2.51 All Wheel Drive Loaded with equipment $20,990 Christine McDonald (center) of the Komen Foundation hands Carol Brownlow of the Hambleton Project a grant check. They were joined by other members of the campus community, including students, campus security and administrators as well as represen tatives of the city of Ashland, including a repre sentative from the Ashland Police Department. The latest fliers found read: “Do you hate QUEERS and their friends and families? FUCK THAT! ...You Queers can vanish to volcanic ash, and reappear in hell with a can of gas and a match. 1 hate QUEERS and God hates QUEERS! And the Bible says that Homosexual Offenders should be put to Death! ‘How come she’s a bitch all the time, all the time, I gotta strangle the girl, I gotta strangle the girl tonight.’ So help eradicate homophobia now, Kill the Queer.” A second flier read: “Do you hate GOD and Christian morals? Dykes and Fags have no soul, so when you kill them you haven’t really com mitted a crime. 1 hate all Queers, but that is okay because they aren’t really people.” The university is taking these actions quite seriously. SOU security and the Ashland Police Department are investigating the matter aggres sively as crimes of intimidation and harassment. For more information contact Colleen McDonald at 503-539-0097 or skirtkat@hot- mail.com or Alix Shedd at 503-288-8481 or lacolocho@gmail.com. The conference Web site is www.bominflames.org. H ambleton P roject G ets from K omen F oundation B ig B ucks The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foun dation of Oregon and Southwest Washington has selected the Hambleton Project as one of 14 recipients to receive Komen Community Grants this year. “Our challenge to advance the local fight against breast cancer remains as great today as ever. One in seven women will be diagnosed in her lifetimes,” said Christine McDonald, exec utive director of the local Komen Foundation. “The community-based grants we fund make it possible for all people to connect with life saving breast health services and much-needed support." Through its Komen Community Grant, the Hambleton Project will provide breast cancer support groups to lesbians and women who part ner with women primarily in the Portland and C onference T akes R adical A pproach Salem areas. It will also create and provide to V iolence eight-week bereavement groups for families of Two years of meetings, debates, actions, breast cancer victims who do not survive. Hie grassroots organizing and collectives formed to Hambleton Project was created seven years ago support survivors of sexual assault while hold in response to the lack of specialized breast ing perpetrators accountable have resulted in a health services for lesbians. three-day conference addressing sexual assault “The Hambleton Project is delighted to from a radical perspective. The Born in Flames receive a third year of funding from the local Conference is the first of its kind in Portland’s Komen Foundation that enables us to provide recent years and will take place June 24 breast cancer support groups and bereavement programming for the lesbians of the northern through 26. Day workshops will be held at Portland States, Willamette Valley, Portland and Southwest University, with nightly entertainment taking Washington,” said Carol Brownlow of the Ham place at Liberty Hall in North Portland. Open bleton Project. “This funding has been a bless ing day will focus on community and personal ing to this underserved population who would education, followed by issues of support on the not access these services from the general com second day and a final day of hashing out munity. Thanks to the generosity of Komen, these women can continue to receive this essen accountability in radical communities. Workshops include “Healthier Sex,” “Make tial survivor support.” The community grants are made possible by Your Own Smut: Radical Pom and Why It’s Important,” “Boundary Setting,” “Guy-Necolo- money raised locally through the annual Komen gy: Men, Sex and Power” and “Creating Online Portland Race for the Cure and other area fund Communities Grounded in the Arts.” Night raisers. “Local support is truly making a difference in events include a sex-positive show with bur eradicating breast cancer as a life-threatening lesque acts and local bands. All workshops and events are disease,” said McDonald. “We’re seeing more queer/trans/straight-friendly, wheelchair accessi survivors today than ever before. While that’s a ble and American Sign Language interpreted. victory in itself, Oregon and Southwest Wash A supervised play area will be available for chil ington have some of the highest breast cancer dren, and sexual assault advocates will be acces Continued on Page 11 sible throughout the conference. MSRP: $24,151 Discount $3,161 #55996 The ALL NEW B9TRIBECAS ( ARE HERE!!! #EW 2005 SU8ARU FORESTER 165-hp 2.5 liter boxer engine - Symmetrical All Wheel Drive Loaded with Equipment $17,990 MSRP: $22,244 Discount $2,754 Rebate $1,500 #55924 BEST SMALL SUV foreste Í mswe WE’VE EVER TESTED” -INSURANCE INSTITUTE FOR HIOWWAY SAFETY You'll say, "I WENT and it was WORTH it! Toll free (866)508-2389 WENTWORTHSUBARU.COM thy M ALL-WHEEL DRIVE HERITAGE Mit« «vtM East End of the Bumside Bridge 107 8E Grand Ave * On approved credit. 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