It all started when some jerk punched Lauren Meyer in the face. The UW-Whitewater freshman, an out lesbian, was wearing a “Legalize Gay” T-shirt that day in September.A t the time, the assault was an anomaly. But then a string of other hateful acts followed, and not just at UW-Whitewater but at UW-Platteville and UW-Stout, too. “All I know is it shouldn?t be happening, but it is, and it?s kind of a little disconcerting,” said Meyer, 18, as she sat in the campus gay-pride center at UW-Whitewater one day last week. Each new incident raised questions ? why now, and why these campuses?
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