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After the Yale Freshman Class Council (FCC) announced this design as the winner of a class-wide vote, some concerns were raised by the Yale LGBT Cooperative about the derogatory use of the word "sissy." Then the administration was consulted and more voting took place, and the shirt design, as...
"It was not really different from other shirts that I've seen through the years," Kissel said. "They were trying to be offensive to Harvard students in general and not to the queer community."
But Christian L. Garland '10-'11, co-chair of the Harvard Queer Student Association Students and Allies, said he disagrees.
"Creating a shirt about sissies is not, in my opinion, an effective way to create conversation," said Garland, a women and gender studies women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator who even says Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of his favorite books. "I'm glad that the University banned...
The controversy has left FlyBy wondering what all the commotion was about in the first place. Here's what we researched—and we'll let you decide.