Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recent controversy surrounding the alleged harassment of a gay Mather House student indicates that students and house masters need to make a greater effort to address homophobia on campus, President Bok said in an interview yesterday...
...said he thinks that a grassroots effort by house masters and house committees to encourage discussion of attitudes toward gay, lesbian and bisexual issues would be more effective than a College-wide program on homophobia...
...kiss-in" staged in the Mather dining hall bythe student group Defeat Homophobia and theposting of pink triangles in students' windows asa show of solidarity with the gay community havecaused widespread debate...
...Crimson's article, "Council Will Ask Houses to Discuss Homophobia" (March 6). While the resolution I sponsored does in fact call on the masters of the houses and the freshmen senior advisors to "engage students and tutors in an open discussion of issues of sexual orientation, including attitudes toward gay and lesbian students," it does not and was never intended to involve the entire campus in a discussion of "the alleged harassment of a gay Mather House resident last month," as the article asserts...
...Mather dance and kiss-in, to blame homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...