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Allen's year in office came at the same time as a resurgence of right-wing activism on campus. Two new groups, the far-right journal Peninsula and AALARM, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religious and Morality, started up just as the Republican Club began staking out a more conservative and more outspoken stance under the leadership of then-President Sumner E. Anderson...
Anderson first mentioned conducting a blue-square campaign in the spring of 1990. In the end, it was AALARM that began postering the campus with blue squares in October of that year. Members of AALARM also chalked blue squares on the side-walks of Harvard Yard and around the houses. All this occurred the day before the National Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Scholars Conference was to begin at Harvard...
Allen says that the protest by AALARM took on particular significance for her because she had only recently found out about black triangles--the symbol the Nazis assigned to lesbians. She says that she had previously felt somewhat removed from the emotional impact of the pink triangles...
...Adam Webb '93, former president of the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM), explains the "welcome" conservatives receive with a hypothetical: "It's your freshman year and you come from a traditional community. You come to a place where people abhor your entire way of life--your desire to have a wife and kids, your belief...
...AALARM, Webb explains, was conceived as a group to raise campus awareness about the views of the right on issues such as abortion and homosexuality, and to serve as a support group for conservatives...