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...semester, the Thayer Hall resident had coxed for men's heavyweight crew, completed the Harvard bartending course and won the "Outstanding Speaker Award" in a first-year event sponsored by Harvard Model Senate. Weekends were often spent in New York, going to West Point balls with her then-boyfriend...
...homeless person reported that her boyfriend slashed her thighs with a razor at about...
...motivating anecdote behind Adair's article is one in which she is asked by a scholarship interviewer whether she has a boyfriend; she feels compelled to respond positively for fear of losing the scholarship. Citing an article I wrote in the Oct. 27 issue of The Salient, Adair writes, "Had my interviewer been Schaefer...I might not have gotten the scholarship...
...explicitly praise the Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70 for saying, "This is a place open to talent... we don't get hung up on irrelevant attributes." The point is this: if I were Adair's interviewer, I would never have asked her, "Do you have a boyfriend?" It is a rude question to ask anyone, whatever his or her sexual orientation. It has nothing to do with Adair's academic performance, and nothing to do with her qualifications for the scholarship...
...have resorted to the closet. I sacrificed my radical politics for ambition. In a scholarship interview last year, the interviewer asked if I had a boyfriend, and I said, "Yes." I lied. I feared losing the interviewer's support. As lesbians and gay men, we have internalized the homophobia of this society. Had my interviewer been Schaefer or Garoon, I might not have gotten the scholarship. And I didn't want to risk it. That $3,000 was more important to me. Perhaps it was an issue of class. Since I am a student financing her own education, the money...