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...spark which ignited this letter was a quote from Thomas M. Lauderdale's '92 in The Crimson on November 25: "Prior to this year nobody ever called me a faggot, on the street...
...word "faggot" did not appear in the issue of Peninsula. But in an unrelated incident, it was scrawled on the door of a Lowell House student. Because it appeared on the same day the magazine was distributed, the graffiti could only exacerbate what promised to be a campus-wide controversy...
LAST WEEK, someone scrawled the word "faggot" on Lowell senior Frank M. Habit's door. This person also tore down two of Habit's postcards--one showing two male dancers, the other reading, "Closets are for clothes and not people." The same standard applies: A college should not discipline you for writing despicable comments on your own door (as the University of Connecticut did last year to a woman who posted a "No homos, no bimbos" sign), but it should for writing them on someone else...
...cases like these, it is time to recognize that the purposes of the university are hindered by infringement of the rules of civilized conduct, which are basic to the communal pursuit of truth. President Neil L. Rudenstine recognized this after the word "faggot" was scrawled on the door of a Lowell House resident last Monday night. As Rudenstine said, criminal acts such as defacement of property are "no longer in the bounds of speech" and should be prosecuted rather than protected under the First Amendment...
Earlier this week, the conservative magazine Peninsula touched off student protests with its distribution of a special 56-page issue on homosexuality. And on Monday, a Lowell resident reported that the word "faggot" scrawled on his door...