Project Pride: Meeting Notes, Tuesday Oct. 27, Week of Oct. 25-31

Take note of our new schedule for this last half of Fall Quarter, as our club meetings will be bi-weekly.
Tuesday, November 10: Club meeting with Free Forum, Open Discussion.
Tuesday, November 24: Club meeting with a Thanksgiving Club Event, TBA.
These club meetings are in the same place, same time:
Room 9102 in the PUB, across from the bookstore, at 1:30.
Knowing what to expect or to hope for & when, we hope you can plan your schedule accordingly & meet up with us.

Our club room is also reserved on Tuesday, November 3 & Tuesday, November 17, (same place, same time) for an Open Officers’ Meeting. While these two days are set aside for leadership collaboration, it is open to everyone.

A big thank you to Officer Ramiro & Recent Past Officer Josef for moving us above & beyond “MySpace.”
Project Pride Club has now joined Twitter & Facebook. More info is at the far right of this blog page. Or just see Ramiro.

We will also have revised club meeting flyers ready for our Officer’s Meeting this coming Tuesday. If you would like to help pass them out campus-wide, then we’ll be happy to see you at this Officer’s Meeting.

Beyond our campus community, today brings exciting news. Google Philadelphia Gay News for the full story: Hate-crimes bill becomes law by Jen Colletta
After a more-than eight-year legislative battle, Congress voted last week to extend federal hate-crimes protections to LGBT victims.The U.S. Senate approved a defense-spending bill Oct. 22 to which the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate-Crimes Prevention Act was attached, and President Obama signed the bill into law Oct. 28.The amendment honors two men both slain in 1998: Shepard, a gay college student from Wyoming, beaten and left to die tied to a fence; and Byrd, a black man who was brutally murdered by three white men.The House had approved the defense bill Oct. 8 in a 281-146 vote. The Senate approved the bill 68-29.The hate-crimes amendment expands the 1969 federal hate-crimes law to include sexual orientation, gender identity, gender and mental or physical disability; provide funding to local and state agencies to investigate hate crimes; remove the current stipulation that offenses must be committed while a victim is engaging in a federally protected activity; and provide the Justice Department greater jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute hate crimes.