Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:05:15 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 3/14/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. Survey finds students view gay teens at risk for violence 2. FL: Clueless editorial on discrimination policy could use responses 3. CA: Various letters on El Modena school club issue 4. RI: School to form banner chain with house for AIDS patients ============================================================================== Erie Morning News, March 1, 2000 205 W. 12th Street, Erie, PA, 16534 (Fax 814-870-1808 ) (E-MAIL: Letters@timesnews.com ) PRINCETON, N.J. ­ Teens largely were aware that Cassie Bernall, a student at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., professed her belief in God shortly before she was killed last April. And, her murder had an impact on teenagers' own religious faith. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ Naples Daily News, March 5, 2000 Box 7009, Naples, FL, 33941 (Fax 941-263-4816 ) (E-MAIL: letters@naplesnews.com ) ( http://www.naplesnews.com/ ) Discrimination policy doesn't need additional provisions By BRENT BATTEN, Columnist We all know that gay students ­ and you can add to that any student who "looks gay," acts gay, sticks up for someone who is gay, is related to someone gay or just otherwise doesn't fit in and so is deemed gay ­ can be mercilessly taunted in school. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2000 Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA, 90053 (Fax 213-237-7679 or 213-237-5319 ) (E-MAIL: letters@latimes.com ) ( http://www.latimes.com ) Letters: Ban on Gay-Straight School Club Debated On Feb. 10, the Orange Unified School District board voted unanimously to ban extracurricular clubs in grades K-8. The rule, which went into effect immediately, banned such dangerous activities as organized donations of stuffed animals to Children's Hospital of Orange County, penny drives for the Leukemia Society of America, the dangerous Pep Squad and the deplorable chess club. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:41:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Tina M. Wood" Subject: RI: High school connects with home for people with HIV (fwd) This was in the Woonsocket (RI) Call. -T. ------------ Mon, Mar 06, 2000 Cumberland unites to celebrate freedom By PAUL R. DUBOIS Staff Writer CUMBERLAND -- Our most precious commodity, freedom , will be dramatically symbolized in a unique Cumberland High School effort launched more than a year ago. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= Jean Richter -- richter@eecs.berkeley.edu The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) These messages are archived by state on our information-loaded free web site: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/