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...diversity, and in the College’s student handbook it is made clear that “any form of discrimination...is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University.” I was thus very surprised when the joint student-faculty Committee on College Life (CCL) voted 8-4 to abandon these principles and allow discrimination on our campus by giving the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) the right to remain an accredited student group...
Perhaps Illingworth, a member of the CCL and a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts who has served in parishes in Maine and Boston, was joking when he said that. According to internal CCL emails I’ve obtained, it seems the changes were part of a joint proposal on the part of Illingworth and recently ousted Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 to approve a newly revised HRCF charter that did not remove the faith requirement for HRCF’s officers and that therefore allowed them to continue to discriminate. This...
...CCL seems to feel it is acceptable to make exceptions to the most serious of rules for those parties that ask for them. This is tantamount to saying that no one can steal—except thieves and pickpockets. Non-discrimination policies are not meant to address organizations which do not discriminate and have no reason to do so; they are necessary precisely to rein in organizations like HRCF—stubborn organizations which insist on discriminating in the face of clear prohibitions against such behavior. By strongly prohibiting already non-discriminatory groups from discriminating and yet opening...
...small and reasonable step toward allowing ethnic organizations to bar those of other ethnicities from their leadership. And if that’s the case, why should organizations like the Fly or the Seneca be barred from College recognition for discriminating on the basis of sex? Perhaps the CCL thinks HRCF is a special case because its discrimination is a matter of religious faith. Note to final clubs: If I were you, I would have one of your members become ordained as a minister online for free, call my group’s members “officers selected...
...definitely accept and respect the committee’s decision,” said CCL member Anthony C. Biagioli ’06, who voted against allowing the provision. “But I didn’t really feel the changes that were made were sufficient...