Several weeks ago, National Coming Out Week was celebrated in the GLBT community. Our campus' celebration was intended, according to the Minnesota Daily, to help "people to understand that to come out, people need to be comfortable no matter how they identify themselves."
When it comes to being a conservative at the U, it is not always the safest, nor enjoyable place. Oftentimes, students are afraid to voice their opinions or their ideas, fearing that they will be chastized by their professors, and possibly even given a lower grade on a paper because of it.
The Daily also said this about the GLBT community's Queer Student Cultural Center: "The group wants people to understand that to come out, people need to be comfortable no matter how they identify themselves," and that "Coming Out Week in particular is a great time to come out because it provides a sense of safety in numbers." 
Going along with the theme of "coming out" and learning to accept and feel safe in one's surroundings, the conservative student groups at the University of Minnesota are pleased to announce CONSERVATIVE "COMING OUT" DAY.
No longer will we sit in the back of our classrooms and not voice up when a prof begins to rant about President Bush.
No longer will we sit back and let the Minnesota Daily, the newspaper that is supposed to represent the ENTIRE campus community, publish editorials that only the far left would support. No longer will we leave the Sierra Club's negative conservative-bashing posters hanging on community boards across campus.
For we are liberated. We are no longer afraid. We are conservatives and we are PROUD!
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Conservative "Coming Out" Day Extravaganza on Coffman Plaza, 11am-3pm. 
~ Walk through our red, white and blue balloon arch and declare that you ARE a conservative!
~ Spend some time in our designated "CONSERVATIVE SAFE ZONE"
~ Pick up one of our specially-designed buttons (shown at right)
Speakers
~ Sue Jeffers, conservative activist, former candidate for governor, owner of Stub and Herb's--7:30pm
~ Jason Lewis, "Minnesota's Mr. Right", conservative activist and talk radio host 100.3 KTLK
Location: Anderson Hall, room 250. Click for directions.
