Word: gsa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THREE YEARS AGO, when they were still ducking food thrown in dining halls and fighting to keep their posters from being defaced and torn down, the members of a small and struggling Gay Students Association (GSA) might not have believed they could accomplish so much so soon. This fall, Harvard's first funded student government elected a gay student--in fact, a highly visible gay activist--its first chairman...
Perhaps more significant, though, was the unsensational, almost matter-of-fact nature of the event. Though the national media seem poised to cover "Harvard's election of a gay chairman," students here seemed to have no thought of such fanfare. The chairman, Michael Colantuono '83, has used his GSA experience as a campaign vote-getter but, now in office, he downplays the label "gay activist"; he promised the council while campaigning that he would not impose his politics or "progressive views" on them. For the meteorically successful Harvard gay rights movement, it may seem that a truly wonderful goal...
Colantuono and Wall both shod front emphasizing their GSA experience. But both struck a theme that can only reflect their frustration at having had to square off with Harvard so many times for concessions which, to the University, could only be considered miniscule. "Our first priority is overcoming the image of powerlessness," said Wall. Colantuono said the council could work only by helping students to "take control of [their] own lives...
This second package was inaugurated two years ago amid charges by the Gay Students Association (GSA) that the new University policy was directed against them. GSA leaders charged then that the policy was designed to keep their publicity out of the "official" registration packet...
...said that the change was not directed at the GSA in particular...