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Gay UI Student Tired Of Hate Vandals

The University of Idaho Law School has had three separate acts of defacement or vandalism that were later determined to be hate crimes by the Risk Management Office occur since August. Kim Stretch, 42, is a third year law student from Fresno who said she’s had enough. She’s not alone. Associate Dean of Faculty Elizabeth Brandt said the law school administration is working closely with the Moscow Police Department to find out who is behind the vandalism and defacement of posters and other hate crimes. According to Stretch, a photo on the American Civil Liberties Union student bulletin board of Mary Grant, an LGBT law student, was found with the eyes scratched out last August. On Feb. 23, photos on the ACLU board were again found defaced, this time with stickpins put through the eye of one student and through the head of another. The third time, an image of Stretch was vandalized/Ashley Centers, UI Argonaut. More here.

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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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