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Groups like the Gay Students Association (GSA) provide gay people with a support group which helps undo years of negative conditioning. For me, a GSA meeting was the first chance I ever had to meet real people who felt the way I do. Admittedly it was not an easy step to take. I can remember pacing around Phillips Brooks house for hours trying to decide whether or not to go into that first meeting. For me, that step was essential. Feelings which I had suppressed for so long could now be expressed openly and honestly. It was a startling experience...
...support group such as GSA makes it easier for gay people to recognize the subtle ways in which anti gay myths are propagated. As Blacks have objected to the use of the world "boy" to refer to an adult and women to the use of "girl," gay people have began to recognize the ways society misperceives us. By recognizing these subtle attacks. It is possible to defend against them. If you see the arrow coming at you, you're less likely to get hurt...
There is a real need for a GSA at Harvard while there is none for the "Straight Students Association, proudly proclaimed on a recent, unsigned poster. Only by forming a community can we change the attitudes that cause difficulties for us. Only through community can we improve things for ourselves and for others. Had I never entered Phillips Brooks House that night and joined the gay community, coming to terms with my sexuality would have been more difficult and more painful...
...results of this election should only stand if, even pretending that all "no" voters had abstained the constitution would have passed anyway. Wouldn't it be ironic if the Third World Alliance and the GSA, in urging their members to reject the constitution, actually helped it pass? Having a "no" vote count as a "yes" is obviously undemocratic. In any future elections, I would recommend dropping any minimum voting clause--anyone too apathetic to vote deserves whatever he gets--and just require a straight majority or straight two-thirds majority. Tim McGuire...
...used in case of war. The tin was bought three decades ago for an average price of only $1.08 per Ib., and the General Services Administration in the past four months has sold 6,470 tons of it for up to $7.49 per Ib. Says Roy Markon, a GSA commissioner: "Why should we be worried about a contrived shortage? It is of great benefit to our sales program and good for the taxpayer...