Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of the recent debate about ROTC presence on campus, we feel that it is important to examine homophobia and the role it plays in the military. Harvard has an explicit policy protecting the rights of gay students. The U.S. military and ROTC are in conflict with this policy because they do not allow gays, lesbians or bisexuals to join the services, claiming that we are more susceptible to blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim...
...engenders community spirit," Adler explains. "Whenever you hear law terms, you feel this camaraderie...
...still, many of those "mobilizing" in Washington were not too convinced about the actual diversity of the crowd. "I feel like more of a visible minority here than I do on a daily basis--and that's pretty bad considering I go to school at a place where I am a distinct minority," said one woman from New York...
...high time to make people feel uncomfortable. This is an issue on which Harvard's far-flung activist communities can unite: the minority communities, the feminist community and activists from other liberal and progressive groups should come together to forge a coalition around this issue. And then they should figure out the best way to make the inertia-laden people up top feel uncomfortable...
...This is not an issue of morals," asserts Michael Hiller, assistant pastor at San Francisco's St. Francis Lutheran and openly homosexual. "It's an issue of justice." It is also a large and continuing problem for ordinary churchgoers, Protestants and Catholics alike, many of whom feel it would be morally wrong to undercut a tenet that Christianity has held with such confidence over so many centuries...