Sunday, April 17, 2011

project 4, almost ready?

I have been thinking a lot lately about project 4 because i feel like i would be unsatisfied with what i had originally planned on doing. I thought and thought and thought and then came to the realization that i wanted to do my project in favor of the gay rights movement and URI, and still include how i think the students should be circulated through the dorms already on campus without constructing and spending millions of dollars to build a separate dorm.

There was recently an article in URI's alumni magazine talking all about the gay rights movement so i am starting with that as some of my research. There have also been quite a few newspaper articles published about this issue both in the school and other local newspapers. I think this sort of cliche topic can be made a bit fresher due to the fact that it is only pertaining to URI and it's students ways of reacting to the gay community on campus and how this community is choosing to fight back.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Trying to start Project 4...

We have a new project that will be due in the beginning of May about a social issue on campus. We have had to do a project about this before and I think that I will do again. At the beginning of the year the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and question community at the University of Rhode Island felt very uncomfortable at school. A lot of hate crimes were recorded against the LBGTQ community which caused them to hold a peaceful protest in the URI library in order to gain rights. They wanted more staff members and a new building for the LBGTQ community as well as a dormitory for those students in order to feel safe and comfortable on campus.

I do feel like all students on campus have the right to feel safe and comfortable, and i do think it was awful that members of the same university were conducting hate crimes towards each other. Yet, i think it is unreasonable for the members of the LBGTQ community to request their own dormitory and living quarters. In order to obtain equality for all i don't think that a group should be segregated like that. I'm still thinking about how i can construct this project without stepping on any toes because i do believe in equal rights. Any ideas on how i can portray this information without sounding like i'm against the LBGTQ community?