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...When GSA members returned in September, they found a new, restrictive postering policy--limiting outdoor postering to seven new kiosks. Suspecting the policy stemmed from administrative disapproval of the GSA's extensive postering last April, they quizzed administrators--who denied the charges. But GSA officials remain unconvinced, arguing that the kiosks and postering rules merely were designed to relegate GSA notices to unobstrusive parts of campus, where impressionable visitors--like alumni--would be less likely to see them...
Three months later, Harvard acted again to silence gay voices. Administrators turned down a GSA request to include information about the group in spring term registration packets--suddenly discovering a policy forbidding student groups from distributing information in the packets...
...GSA has made another legitimate demand of Harvard, but seems likely to be foiled again. A GSA official went before the Faculty Council shortly before vacation to call for a University-wide policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
...council members greeted the GSA official presenting the policy with sharp questions about the need for Harvard to affirm explicity the nondiscrimination they considered so obvious. And, they noted, Harvard only lists the groups that federal law requires them to enumerate. Their explanation for this "policy:" If Harvard were to begin listing groups not mandated by law, people would assume it discriminated against all unlisted groups--like fat people, people who wear glasses, and other oppressed groups...
...Council rejects the GSA's request, it would continue Harvard's all-too-frequently demonstrated tradition of ignoring the spirit of federal codes aimed at securing the rights of minority groups, a trend shown all too clearly in its lackadaisical compliance with affirmative action codes regarding racial minorities and women...