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Jennifer McCreight, left,  talks with Matt Kerns, as students gather for
Jennifer McCreight, left, talks with Matt Kerns, as students gather for "boobquake" Monday, April 26, 2010, on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. According to the Journal & Courier, McCreight, a senior at Purdue, started "boobquake" after comments by Iranian cleric Kazem Sedighi, who said promiscuous women were responsible for earthquakes in Iran. "As a scientist I had to challenge it," McCreight told the Journal & Courier. Participants were asked to wear any revealing clothing they felt comfortable in. Kerns said his sign was a play on homegrown religious fundamentalism, such as the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas whose members picket funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers to express the belief that U.S. troop deaths are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. (John Terhune / Journal & Courier)

Jennifer McCreight, left, talks with Matt Kerns (who's spoofing protests by the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.), as students gather for "boobquake" Monday on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. According to the Journal & Courier, McCreight, a senior at Purdue, started "boobquake" after comments by Iranian cleric Kazem Sedighi, who said promiscuous women were responsible for earthquakes in Iran. "As a scientist I had to challenge it," McCreight told the Journal & Courier. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, John Terhune)

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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