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Administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire say they will punish a professor who sent an e-mail discouraging students there from holding a gay film festival because he decries "attempts to legitimize (homosexuals') addictions and compulsions," the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram reported. The student had sent an e-mail to a group of employees last month asking for faculty support in publicizing the Eau Queer Film Festival, a new event that took place last week. In reply, the newspaper said, Tom Hilton, chairman of the university's information systems department, sent what university administrators characterized as a "hurtful and condescending" reply, saying that gay people, "our fellow humans, deserve our best efforts to help them recover their lives. We only hurt them further when we choose to pretend that these walking wounded are OK the way they are, that their present injuries are the best they can hope for in life." Hilton told the Telegram Leader that he had worded his e-mail "very badly" and said that he was sorry and would cooperate if the university punishes him.
