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Yearbook Policy Angers Lesbian Pupil

ORG XMIT: JX102 Veronica Rodriguez, right, the mother of Ceara Sturgis, a 17-year-old lesbian, complains to reporters that her daughter deserves to have her senior portrait, included in the yearbook of the Wesson Attendance Center even though she is wearing a tux instead of the over-shoulder-drapes traditionally worn by females while Kristy Bennett, an ACLU of Mississippi attorney takes notes Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, in Jackson, Miss. According to Rodriguez, the principal has said the yearbook senior portraits are of male senior students in tuxedos and the female senior students in drapes, with no exceptions. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (Rogelio Solis / The Spokesman-Review)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354

Veronica Rodriguez, right, the mother of Ceara Sturgis, a 17-year-old lesbian, complains to reporters that her daughter deserves to have her senior portrait, included in the yearbook of the Wesson Attendance Center even though she is wearing a tux instead of the over-shoulder-drapes traditionally worn by females while Kristy Bennett, an ACLU of Mississippi attorney takes notes Thursday in Jackson, Miss. According to Rodriguez, the principal has said the yearbook senior portraits are of male senior students in tuxedos and the female senior students in drapes, with no exceptions. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Question: Should the school be flexible and change its long-standing policy re: senior portraits? Or should the lesbian student bow to tradition?

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