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November 5

, 1996

U a O Offers Scholarship for Queer Studies

By Stephanie Power

and Rachel Furey

Although there are not a lot of courses with queer content offered at the University of Ottawa, a scholarship will soon be available for U of O students who want to study issues affecting the gay and lesbian community.

The Lambda Foundation for Excellence, a national

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organization for the promotion of queer issues, is offering a $1,000 scholarship for graduate students working in the area of lesbian and gay studies at the U of O.

The first recipient of the award is Peggy Schmeiser, a Ph.D student in religious studies. She is researching the portrayal of women in cinema by studying gender and intimacy within a religious context.

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The University of Ottawa is the first university at which Lambda will offer the scholarship. Next year it will be offered at Carleton. The scholarship will serve as a model for the implementation of a national scholarship program.

The scholarship will be open to all graduate students or university researchers in all field of study who are undertaking research projects relating to gay and lesbian

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studies. The recipient doesn't have to be queer.

Jackie Henley, Student Federation co-commissioner for lesbian, gay and bisexual students is excited about the scholarship. "Hopefully [the scholarship] will help make more people aware that they can follow a lesbian and gay course of study which will hopefully make the university offer more programs."

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