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...Awkward silence...
...carrying out recommendations designed to prevent discrimination has been left largely to Dowling--an awkward position for someone who has himself been accused of discriminatory acts...
...innocent students, Harvard should use its clout to pressure Congress and President Clinton to change the military's policy. This argument ignores the problem that any lobbying Harvard might do is greatly weakened if its money is not where its mouth is. University administrators would be put in the awkward position of saying, "Discrimination against homosexuals is bad. But thanks for the check, anyway...
While I played along, and was glad to learn the names of several of my fellow students, all of us, myself included, exchanged little awkward judgmental glances over her shameless display of friendliness. Faces seemed to say "What is she doing?" and "Why is she doing this?" and even "What if I don't want to know these people...
...this dramatic exhibition of seeming omnipartisanship, an opinion piece appeared on these pages, written by a first year computer to The Harvard Crimson. In it, he told of the travails of this publication's gender-neutral mission, which on the occasion of his first news story left his prose awkward and "corrupted" the story's original meaning. Interestingly, he finished his observations on gender neutrality by considering how the above panelists' anti-Radcliffe conclusions could be read as a "support for a more androgynous environment" here at Harvard...