Word: homophobia
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Recent controversy surrounding the alleged harassment of a gay Mather House student indicates that students and house masters need to make a greater effort to address homophobia on campus, President Bok said in an interview yesterday...
...said he thinks that a grassroots effort by house masters and house committees to encourage discussion of attitudes toward gay, lesbian and bisexual issues would be more effective than a College-wide program on homophobia...
...added that he believes some houses may havemore of a problem with homophobia than others...
...Homophobia exists on campus to be sure--as the scribbled message "Harvard faggots die" indicates. However, to use this to brand the Harvard/Radcliffe heterosexual community as overwhelmingly intolerant is making the tempting mistake of calling the whole bushel rotten because of a few rotten apples. The fact is that Harvard is overwhelmingly tolerant...
...Mather dance and kiss-in, to blame homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...