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Volume 128 Issue 78
Kansan.com
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Monday, February 16, 2015
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CAMPUS COUPLE BONDS OVER MOVIES,NETFLIX
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AMIE JUST
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They're not high school sweethearts, but they're not a college couple either.
Sophomores Cameron Arnold and Hannah Wilson, both of Topeka, started dating during the summer before their freshman year.
"We met in Topeka at a Hookah House," Arnold said.
Arnold got Wilson's number from a mutual friend and invited her and several others to go out. He then canceled on everyone except Wilson at the last minute.
The two of them went to a movie and to eat at Red Robin afterward.
The traditional dinner and a movie is now a staple in their lives.
"We generally do dinner and watch Netflix," Wilson said.
The two have seen several movies together, such as "Vanilla Sky," "Hercules," "Olympus Has Fallen," "Ice Man" and "Gravity."
They aren't tied to just taking in movies; they have their regular television shows as well. They watch "The Walking Dead," "Game of Thrones," "New Girl" and "Viking."
The couple is holding true to tradition for Valentine's Day. The two are going out to dinner, going bowling and then going to watch Netflix to celebrate the holiday.
A YEAR AND A HALF When Arnold and Wilson moved to Lawrence, they
ended up on opposite ends of campus. Arnold lived in Templin, while Wilson lived in GSP.
Wilson's time in GSP was short-lived, as she had a falling out with her roommate and ended up moving to Templin after winter break.
Just a few weeks before Wilson moved to Templin, the two had their first Christmas together.
Arnold said that Christmas was one of his favorite memories of Wilson. He gave her a pearl necklace and she teared up.
"It was also the first time we had said we loved each
other, so there was lots of crying." Arnold said.
Wilson spoke of one of her favorite memories with Arnold like it happened yesterday.
"I had a bad day and was wearing a scrub outfit, laundry day clothes," Wilson said. "I leaned back and Cameron was looking at me, like looking at me, and he said 'Hannah, you are the most beautiful girl in the world'."
Yes, the couple has had their learning curves, but overall, the two have loved every moment they've spent together.
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When Chrissie Noriega joined Queers and Allies last year, she was already contemplating a name change for the campus LGBT group. To her, it was limiting. Not every transgender person is gay. She knew the name would keep some people, including other on-campus groups, away.
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"The word queer was seen as divisive, and some people didn't take that on as an identity," Norgiea said. At her urging, the group renamed itself Spectrum and is working to engage a wider audience that truly lives up to the name. In the past year, the group has led discussions about LGBT Muslims and violence in
"We have to be working together, because a lot of times social justice organizations are working towards the same goal, but with their own means," Noriega said. "I don't want anyone to feel left out of what we're doing, so I work with other people and try to bring them into our community."
LGBT communities and hosted a viewing of the film "Pariah" with the Black Student Union. It also encourages attendance for other organizations' activities, such as The Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity's Trans+ Remembrance Day Candlelight Vigil.
Noriega said she was raised to believe everyone was equal. In her Queens, New York, home, she watched her father do the laundry
"I think I had a hole in my clothes, so her mom took it and was going to fix it and I was like 'Oh, my dad does that!' and they were like 'What? Your father can't do that, that's women's work,'" she said.
and make lunches. He even taught her to sew. She didn't realize that was unusual until she had a conversation with her friend's mother in fourth grade.
Noriega said being raised in an egalitarian family motivates her to change the perception of gender norms here in Kansas.
"I'm a feminist and an activist, a lesbian [and a] social justice advocate," she said.
Mitchell Cota, Spectrum's
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Statehouse for LBGT rights
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J JAMES HOYT
On Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered on the south lawn of the Kansas Statehouse to protest Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's Executive Order 15-02. The rally was organized by
Wichita-based LGBT rights coalition Equality Kansas and featured state representative John Carmichael (D-Wichita) as a keynote speaker.
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The Valentine's Day rally was organized in response to an executive order Brownback declared Feb. 10, which revoked workplace protections given to state employees on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This makes it legal for state employees
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"This Executive Order ensures that state employees enjoy the same civil rights as all Kansans without creating additional 'protected classes' as the previous order did. Any such expansion of 'protected classes' should be done by the legislature and not through unilateral action," Brownback said in a statement last Tuesday.
to be discriminated against if they identify as LGBT. The order reverses protections that former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius put in place in August 2007.
Catholics were banned from the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies Catholic clergymen could be put to death in Massachusetts by law in 1647. Gov Brownback, that's your adopted religion," Meade said.
Carmichael expressed his support for the demonstrator's cause and informed them of his plans to advocate for the LGBT community in the legislature through his sponsorship of House Bill 2323, which aims to reinstate the protected classes.
Daisy Tackett, a University freshman from Jacksonville, Fla., said she attended the rally because she has friends who identify as LGBT.
"We heard about this protest and we all just wanted to come and support equality," Tackett said.
Equality Kansas Chairwoman Sandra Meade drew comparisons to past instances of discrimination in American history to criticize Brownback's policy in front of the crowd.
— Edited by Samantha Darling
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