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Recently, the knock around Harvard Yard have been papered with signs advertising a comp for the Harvard Gay Lesbian Association. As we thought this organization was open to all interested parties, we were distressed to see that it appears that the club is considering limiting its membership by competitive exclusion. A cursory look about campus shows that the comp for The Crimson select the best writers, and the comp for WHRB select, the best announcers. One can not help but wonder what qualifications HLSA selects in its comp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLSA | 3/6/1985 | See Source »

...editorial ethics to refrain from printing such distortions. GLSA (note that the writers of The Salient have not even bothered to learn the correct name for an organization they are attacking) is open to all Harvard students of whatever sexual orientation or political perspective. The idea of a comp for GLSA is so ludicrous that to take it seriously shows their eagerness to deprecate Harvard's gay community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLSA | 3/6/1985 | See Source »

...GLSA functions as a support groups and political organization advocating human rights. The Salient, by implying that GLSA is interested in 'recruiting' new members one the basis of their sexual prowess, shows that they have accepted as truth a pernicious and blatantly false stereotype. Even if there were a comp for GLSA, the qualifications would not be sexual but rather would include qualities such a open-mindedness, tolerance and a belief in the equality of all people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLSA | 3/6/1985 | See Source »

...introductory "comp" meeting last Tuesday evening. Editor in Chief Lisa S. Schokolnick '88 and Chief Financial Officer Scott I Lessing '88 said that their main goal is to make the newspaper fiscally and editorially independent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democrats Revive Club Newspaper | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

...Before the comp was reminiscent of boot camp and the Castle certainly had a boy's club feeling of machismo," says former President Brien Mc Cormack...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kraminick, | Title: A 75-Year-Old Joke | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

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