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Clearly though, Forbes is a different candidate than he was in 1996. Back then he avoided strong stands on "family issues," such as abortion, gay rights and affirmative action...
John H. Whitehouse III (Letters, April 12) attributes the gay community's opposition to the return of ROTC to the Harvard campus to "self-righteous arrogance," citing the support by gay students of American troops in Kosovo. White-house is correct in suggesting that gay students overwhelmingly support efforts by the United States military, in addition to supporting their peers in ROTC who have undertaken our national defense as their personal responsibility...
Whitehouse's assertion that the gay community's opposition to ROTC's return to Harvard's campus is a function of "fee[ing] uncomfortable" trivializes the challenges that gay students face each day in gaining and maintaining acceptance in our community. I urge Whitehouse to educate himself about the escalation of hate crimes against gays and lesbians in our society today, crimes which have been concentrated in areas where tolerance is not as widely practiced...
...join ROTC, students accept the commute as an inconvenience in exchange for the opportunity to serve as a cadet or midshipman, and this is certainly a noble choice. Similarly, students who wish to cross-register at another school accept the commute as a cost of participation. However, while gay and lesbian students are allowed to register for most classes at MIT, they do not have the choice to register for classes sponsored by the ROTC, That is a fundamental argument made by the gay community in opposition to the council bill and the proposal for ROTC's return...
Self-proclaimed "smut writers" Ford and Cecelia Tan read graphic excerpts from their gay erotic works to a crowd of three dozen undergraduates at Harvard Hall last night. The reading and subsequent discussion was part of Queer Month at Harvard, funded by Open-Gate, an alumni organ that actively subsidizes campus events for gay students...