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Amidst confusion over parliamentary rules of procedure, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) yesterday pushed aside a request by the Gay Students Association (GSA) to include a pamphlet on homosexuality in next semester's registration packets and instead adopted a proposal to provide a second set of registration envelopes in which all official student groups may place information about their activities...
CHUL's decision angered more than 50 GSA members and other students who came to the meeting to protest discrimination against gays and lesbians at Harvard and to urge CHUL to accept GSA's request...
...whole reason" GSA brought its request to CHUL is because the group believes Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and other University administrators discrminated against gays and lesbians last month by ruling that no student groups may include information in the regular registration packets which all students must pick up in Memorial Hall on the first day of each term, Williams added...
...Until GSA made its request, no one questioned the practice of allowing student groups to use the registration envelopes. Now, however, University officials say they may not allow any students access to the envelopes, and they claim that past use of the envelopes by the Student Assembly, Phillips Brooks House and other groups has been a mistake. Since this "mistake" has been occurring regularly for several years, we can only assume that administrators are either biased against gays or negligent of their duties...
...University's response to GSA's request is only the most recent example of what looks like a pattern of prejudice against gays and lesbians at Harvard. New regulations restricting the placement of posters also appear to be aimed at GSA, which successfully advertised its activities last year through a series of poster barrages. Together, the new postering rules and restricted access to registration packets amount to a medieval attempt to squelch an active minority at Harvard. Registration envelopes should be open to all student groups, and the right of minorities to be heard must not be denied. If there...