Word: granieri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Granieri's turn toward the right occurred after he won a scholarship to a Jesuit school in Buffalo and was exposed to conservative ideas for the first time. Granieri found a particular fascination with the life of Alexander Hamilton, a West Indian who through sheer smarts made his way to the North American colonies and to Columbia College. "Hamilton was the scholarship student of the American Revolution," says Granieri. Hamilton, not incidentally, also emerged as one of the most prominent conservative thinkers...
...Granieri's attachment to conservatism also resulted from his Catholic faith. He readily accepted Catholic positions on abortion and homosexuality and still attends mass. He remains a purist and knocks Catholic services at Harvard for their untraditional use of guitars and singing. "There are some places where it starts to drift over into vanilla religion," he says. "I like my religion straight...
...time he graduated from high school, Granieri was fully committed to the right. He had become a registered member of the Conservatives--a New York third party--and had decided to challenge the liberal orthodoxy at Harvard rather than follow friends to other schools, such as Notre Dame, that more closely suited his temperament...
...time he arrived in his "Justice" class freshman year, Granieri was by his own admission "ostentatiously conservative. I had a vision of myself as a lonely crusader for truth." Granieri's one-man battles won him some enemies, and occasionally, threatening late-night phone calls from angry classmates...
Though he has tempered his zealotry since then, Granieri still finds himself at the center of controversy. When Mather House erupted this spring after the alleged harassment of a gay student, Granieri was assailed by students who labeled him a homophobe. But Granieri heatedly denied that not siding with the gay student in the conflict makes him a homophobe...