Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's reporting of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students' Association's and the Harvard Republican Club's policy statements regarding the Constitutional Convention is deplorable and demands clarification...
...would be required to take extra courses under the new Core Curriculum, commuter students were asked to return to large classes during the storm before public transportation was fully restored, and if any single group at Harvard-Radcliffe needs their acceptance reaffirmed it would have to be lesbians and gay...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association does not condemn the constitution simply because lesbians and gay men were denied representation. The Association objects to the failure of the Convention to establish explicit criteria for determining what groups qualify for special representation. The Association believes that the Convention debate was conducted in an atmosphere of power politics, and not with a genuine concern for fairness to minority or disadvantaged groups...
...proposed student government is an important issue that demands intelligent deliberation by the student body. Inherently necessary to that deliberation is correct information regarding the Constitution and its implications. --Chuck Fraser '78 President, Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association --Kathy Duey '79 President, Harvard Republican Club
...constitution presented, a black woman is entitled to three times as much say in the government as a white male, and three-halves that of a Puerto Rican male. Are these ratios supposed to be a quantitative measure of discrimination? Furthermore, religious minorities such as Jews and Catholics, and gay men and women, have been completely excluded from the privileged class of the oppressed. There is certainly just as much and perhaps more evidence of unfair treatment of these groups at Harvard than the ones arbitrarily selected by the authors of this constitution. And what about the handicapped students...