Word: affirmations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just that of the Gay Students Association members who immediately--and rightly--blasted it. The suggestion by Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences, that society should exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality, shows gross intolerance towards the gay community University officials should swiftly affirm that Pattullo's views are not Harvard...
...petition--its first request is that Pattullo clarify his position, an invitation for further dialogue that Pattullo has not responded to. Nowhere does the petition call for silence. As for Engelmayer's suggestion that the appropriate respond to the Pattullo letter would be for Dean Rosovsky to affirm the Faculty's commitment to diversity--well, this suggestion would seem more aptly directed to the Dean himself...
...document also demands that Pattullo "clarify" his position as director of the center, that the center "affirm a policy of non-discrimination protecting lesbians and gay men and lesbian and gay research," and that Rosovsky conduct an investigation of the center and make "specific recommendation" to prevent future cases of anti-gay discrimination...
...should stop building them. That is a fact that John F. Kennedy '40 realized almost 20 years ago. "Our problems, "he said in his famous 1963 speech on arms control, "are man-made. Therefore they can be solved by man." Approval of the freeze resolutions by Congress would affirm Kennedy's belief that we can exercise ultimate control over our own destiny...
...responsibility of leaders is not simply to affirm an objective. It is above all to endow it with a meaning compatible with the values of their society. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, if the yearning for peace is not allied with a sense of justice, it can become an abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. To build peace on reciprocal restraint; to suffuse our concept of order with our country's commitment to freedom; to strive for peace without abdication and for order without unnecessary confrontation-therein resides...