‘Ellen’ episode gains support from students ELLEN from page 1 Knudsen said. Other viewers agreed. Gina Matkin, training coordinator and adviser at the resource center, said the show was more emotional than she expected. “I wondered if parents of gay kids felt like they knew a little more about the process their children must have went through,” Matkin said. “I found it very emotional.” -ft m_ _« _A a1__1 _A?_ many pcujjic at iuc ttituiauuu thought the humorous way the show was presented helped ease the touchy subject matter. “Humor has a way of making people feel at ease,” Knud sen said. “It might make sane people more willing to un derstand.” Some viewers also thought the reac tions from Ellen’s friends were very re alistic. Senior English major John Engle said some of his own friends reacted in the same way at his coming out. “Ellen’s friends’ reactions were pretty standard,” Engle said. “It’s something new fa them as well as fa her, and it’s certainly a drastic change.” Some viewers were disappointed that both Chrysler and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. chose to pull their advertising spots from the hour of television during the show. Most thought the companies were only hurting themselves. “Corporate America needs to realize that the gay dollar is huge,” Engle said. “In the end, they are cutting their own throats by refusing to advertise.” Safely fliers create discord FLIERS from page 1 has conducted a campus rape awareness cam paign, said thft, flier was a good but ill-timed idea. “I totally agree with the facts,” Rager said. “But it detracts from the seriousness of the is sue at hand.” Rager said she has observed students laugh ing at the combination of the green flier and the first safety-alert flier. Both fliers should be taken seriously, and the new flier should have been timed accordingly, she said. She said the green flier would be an excel lent idea if posted again at the beginning of the fall semester, when it could increase rape awareness among new and returning students without detracting from the important serial rapisi warning. Kriss found only (me fault with the flier. The UNL community must be made aware the threat of rape exists in all areas, not just in fra ternities or the Athletic Department, she said. The serial rapist, for instance, does not ap pear to target such areas, she said. “I don’t think we want to limit our hyper alert state to those environments,” Kriss said. Christina Brantner, director of the Women’s Studies Association, said she didn’t think the green flier detracted from the serious nature of the suspected serial rapist. “The purpose was to get people’s attention and make them think,” she said. The original safety-alert flier on the serial , rapist was poorly framed and not the whole story on rape, Brantner said. So a group of caring students in the asso ciation decided to dispel myths the first flier might have created, she said. “We knew that every young black male of a certain age group would be targeted,” Brantner said. “It’s a racist thing. “The fact is, that most of those rapes occur by people we know,” she said, not by strangers of one particular ethnicity.” SAFETY ALERT THIS IS THE COMPOSITE OF A SUSPECT INVOLVED IN MULTIPLE SEXUAL ASSAULTS THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST INCLUDING THE LINCOLN AREA. THE SUSPECT MAS TARGETED UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE CAMPUSES WITH THE PREVIOUS ATTACKS OCCURRING INSIDE BUILDINGS. THE PARTY IS DESCRIBED AS A SLACK MALE, 18-35 YEARS OF AGE, S’ 7" TALL WITH A THIN TO MEDIUM BUILD. 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