Show S Sexual exu a I M i Minority n 0 rity T Threatens h rea te ns Petition If Needs Arent Aren't Met Group asks for more diverse political platform in future By Olga Campus Editor REDWOOD REDWOOD Coloring Colori g Outside the Lines at Salt Lake Community College is an organization that supports sexual sexual sexual sex ual minorities such as gays lesbians bisexual and der students but welcomes heterosexual heterosexual heterosexual het het- het- het people to participate in the clubs club's activities One of the main reasons for the clubs club's activities is to emphasize diversity diversity diversity diver diver- sity at Pride and Awareness Week that took place from April until April was one of these activities where the the club club had shown movies and organized organized organized organ organ- speeches and presentations to increase the awareness and connect the community better According to Gordon Storrs club advisor this was the first attempt to create an activity of this kind despite the fact that the club existed in an organized way for four years He hopes to eventually make it an annual thing following the example of other major schools like the University of Utah Storrs believes that bringing b ging together the students of different sexual orientations is important to help people understand that the has diversity on its campuses although only to a certain extent Commenting on the current elections of the student body officers were well financed but poorly diversified party had won over its opponent the Synergy party Storrs said It seems that year after year a more diverse party doesn't get enough money to have a chance of winning I think that all the clubs would have hoped to see the changes some day However Storrs had emphasized that even though the diversity question is unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate in regard to student senate senate senate sen sen- ate or the Executive Council the Coloring Outside the Lines Line club had always been supported by bythe bythe bythe the administration They helped it with scheduling the rooms and finances Last weeks week's activities held both at the Redwood and the South City campuses were also organized by the club not without this kind of help Jackie Farnsworth who spoke at the Redwood Campus on Thursday April 1 II th on the topic of gay equality ty also hopes on a greater diversity She thinks that the creation of the Multicultural Center President Lynn Cundiff proposed to build with the money used from tuition increases in the future will be helpful to change the current sit sit- Farnsworth just fears that sexual minorities for whatever reason might not be included into the project In this case Farnsworth stated she would be very upset This would be pure discrimination j fand f and I would start orga organizing izing t the students to create a petition appealing the decision right away she said In other words the diversity is a valid issue and will be at least until Coloring Outside the Lines along with other clubs representing minorities minorities minorities minori minori- ties will become more recognized recognized recognized and better accepted by the students and administration of ti s 1 |