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[puszysty]

Hope College administration at it again:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-20/milk-screenwriter-battles-gay-bashing-college

"Boy in short shorts" is a kid that was in my Japanese class. Kudos to him.

I really have to wonder what is going to happen when Bultman retires. Whether that will put an end to the DelaTorre, Black, and Gay/Straight Alliance chutzpahs, or if the college is just going to search out the most conservative alum they can find to take his place.

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[safenthecity.livejournal.com]

... Wow. I don't even have words for this. It's pretty ridiculous that this is still going on, but at the same time, it's pretty cool that the town came together to make the screening seen. You actually went there? How did you keep from stabbing yourself through the eyes?

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

I survived as I started out a lot more conservative than I am now. Hope made me liberal. Lol. (seriously, seeing conservatism up close and personal? is what made me swing the other way). When I was a freshman, I wouldn't even read slash because the idea of male/male sex freaked me out. Now look at me.
At least it wasn't like, Spring Arbor, where chapel is mandatory every day, boys can only be in the girls dorms for 2 hours a day and vice versa, and holding hands is considered somewhat scandalous.

I have some interesting stories about Hope though. I recall my freshman year on Coming Out Day, a bunch of students wrote things like "Love = ♥ + ♥" and an hour later, they'd all been washed away by campus admin.

It was actually the campus community, as I believe they own that theater (Park Theater. though it sounds as if it was screen at the Knick as well, which is also campus owned.) They did the same thing when Vagina Monolouges was banned from being performed on campus. The rest of Holland is just about as conservative as the Hope administration.