Matthew Gadbois (The Beacon)
By Matthew Gadbois, Guest Commentary
After reading Amanda Munro's article a couple of weeks ago about the oppression of GSP as a club by the University of Portland administration, I decided to get involved with our school's Gay Straight Partnership to see what it's all about. The main concern of the article was the idea that "the administration does not allow [GSP] to do meaningful work in the community," such as going to the Gay Fair downtown as an organized group. It's a romantic idea that the GSP students are rebels fighting against a disapproving, prejudiced administration, but that frankly is not the reality of the movement that is happening here at UP. I was very encouraged to find that the administration has been unbelievably cooperative with GSP to help a club like it exist at our school. The implied tension between
