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...Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association (GSA) will stage a walkathon around the campus this weekend, raising money for a pamphlet on anti-gay discrimination at Harvard to be distributed to faculty members in February...
...pamphlet is partially a response to the May Faculty Council rejection of a GSA request to add a clause to University statues prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in Harvard's admission and hiring policies, J. French Wall '83, president of GSA said yesterday...
Many Faculty and students have also questioned how effectively the minority groups that gain seats on the council would represent members of their own minorities. What if, for example, a Black or gay student does not feel that the Black Students Association (BSA) or the Gay Students Association (GSA) properly represents his or her needs and desires? The constitution committee was very careful not to mention names of specific organizations that will represent the various minority groups, saying only that "the undergraduate organization which represents the most students in each of the above groups, or is mutually agreed upon...
...letter appearing in The Crimson on October 15, four members of the William J. Seymour Society labeled the issue of minority representation in the new student government as "laughable" and "pablum." They went on to single out GSA's [Gay Students Association] desire for a voice in the new government as "puerile" and "illegitimate." I suggest that the society, instead of spewing invectives and denying the oppression of other groups (including Asians, women, Hispanics, "middle-class Blacks" and Gays), might use its time and energy more constructively...
Without ever offering any reasons why, the Society flatly states. "the illegitimacy of GSA's claim is obvious." Historically, Gay people have been systematically denied participation in, and protection from, majoritarian politics. Furthermore, they have identifiable interests: safety. academic freedom, employment and housing security and ending the mindless bigotry that has for so long denied them basic civil liberties. The "illegitimacy" of our desire for a voice in the new student government is not clear to me, nor to the Constitution Committee which made the recommendation...