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06.05.2009 12:01pm EDT
An anonymous donor has given $1.7-million to the University of British Columbia in honor of Jane Rule, the late author and UBC educator noted for being a lesbian role model.
The anonymous donation will help establish the Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships, Canada’s largest university fund devoted to the study of sexuality.Rule was the recipient of both the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada, and several of her 12 novels were adapted into movies. Rule died in 2007 of liver cancer.
Read the full Globe and Mail story here.
