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justputj 9 MAY SPIRIT BODY MASSAGE RICHARD LUDT - LMT because... China, which has 1.3 billion people, or India, which has 1.1 bil lion, has the same infection rate as sub-Saharan African countries by 2013, I calculated that there will be more HIV-positive people within each country than individ ual citizens in America,” said Maguire, who embarks by Aug. 1. Learning as much as possible about the HIV/AIDS education being done in the countries he’ll visit is Maguire’s main goal. “1 want to figure out how effective culturally specific education and Insight Out, a theater collective co-founded by Wade McCollum, prevention is in high-risk groups was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant. who may or may not be moral very open-minded and therefore know all they outcasts in their society,” he said. “My hypothesis is need to [about queer health issues],’’ said Bosse. that these will not be effective because the culture Queers and Allies, which began in March and is not something they feel a part of due to their out participated in the nationwide Day of Silence, will sider status." launch a lunchtime speaker series to help educate Maguire will be applying to medical school this the entire student body. The club will also provide summer and said he is interested in primary care, information June 16 and 17 at Portland Pride, family practice or pediatrics and internal medicine. where booth visitors can receive coupons for the “My ideal would be to have a private clinic that school's student-staffed, sliding-scale clinics. catered to HIV-positive people with secondary ill “The administration and student government nesses,” he said. . are highly supportive of diversity and the club,” said Malus, who sees the group as an important Theater Group Receives NEA Grant social opportunity for queer students at the college. Insight Out, a mid-level theater collective Bosse added, “More clubs like this will increase founded by queer Portland actors Julianna Jaffe and enrollment, as LGBT applicants would gravitate Wade McCollum, was awarded $5,000 May 1 toward those schrxils, and it will improve the visibil through the National Endowment for the Arts ity of alternative medicine in the gay community." amid top players Portland Center Stage and Artists As a result, Malus predicted, “It will increase Repertory Theatre. the wellness of the gay community.” The “Access to Artistic Excellence” grant will The National College of Natural Medicine help with the development and production of Natural Health Center is located at 2220 S.W. First a multidisciplinary interpretation of William Ave. The Pettygrove Classical Chinese Medicine Shakespeare’s The Tempest called For:Give. This Clinic is located at 2232 N.W. Pettygrove St. For inventive twist on the play aims to translate the more information visit www.ncnm.edu. original text through aerial choreography, height ened movement, dance, song, film and sound in an Student Leader Wins Fellowship ensemble created work. Recent Reed College graduate Jeff Maguire is “Insight Out is honored and tremendously one of 50 students to win the Thomas J. Watson excited to have received this NEA grant,” said Foundation fellowship for a year of independent Jaffe. “To have earned any funding at all with the exploration and travel outside the United States. His NEA is a huge step for us, but it really is the merit project "From Drag Queens to Deities: Exploring they found with our artistic offering and the Cultural Responses to H1V/A1DS” will take him to recognition that goes along with it that makes this the Ukraine, China, India and South Africa. a remarkable award for Insight Out.” Maguire is not new to world travel. In 2004 he volunteered with Uganda African Child’s Pro-Choice Comedian Entertains Foundation doing outreach and working in HIV- at Darcelle's related programs. Half a year later he was hack in Planned Parenthixxl’s Sexy Tuesdays, a weekly Africa, after he and his father raised $4,000 for a event to build a new generation of supporters and fund-raiser climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. advocates for choiCe, is planning its biggest event While at Reed, Maguire volunteered with yet at Darcelle XV Showplace. Cascade AIDS Project and the Oregon AIDS Comedian Carol Leiter, who spent three years Hotline. The experience he gained from starting writing for NBC’s Seinfeld and was the real-life inspi ration for the character Elaine Benes, will perform his high school’s Gay Straight Alliance and serving as treasurer of Boston University’s queer student group helped him to land a leadership role in Reed’s Queer Alliance and to co-found the Greater Portland Intercollegiate Queer Society. Maguire said he believes his continued involvement in the queer community made him stand out among fellow applicants. Maguire’s project idea grew out of a final paper he wrote for a Chinese anthropology class. He was asked to find a problem plaguing,the development of China that a specific organization was trying to address with culturally tailored operations. “If either 7 p.m. May 22 at 208 N.W. Third Ave. Leiter has paved a variety of paths in a field where not many female comedians have ventured. Most notably, she served as a writer and supervising pnxlucer on HBO’s critically acclaimed The Larry Sanders Show. Tickets are $2O-$25 at the door or $15-$2O in advance from 503-280-6150. For more information about Planned Parenthixxl of the Columbia/ Willamette, visit www.ppaction.org/ppor. © By J aymef . R. C uti , M alka G effen and J im R adosta once a month maintenance for your body keeps you on the road - whether you drive, bike, run or bus. 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