Giving tolerance a chance: Students, RMC restart Gay Straight Alliance

Molly Ouelette is an outgoing freshman at Rocky Mountain College with a sincere smile and a wide circle of friends. But last November just as she was adjusting to college life, she walked out to her car in a school parking lot to discover a sharp reminder that not everyone is as tolerant and friendly as she is. Someone had scratched the word “dyke” into her car. “I felt so vulnerable,” Ouelette said. “I was really distraught. I went to the Dean of Students and said, ‘What should I do?’ ”