Word: homophobia
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...article in yesterday's Crimson misstated the original intention of an Undergraduate Council resolution. According to the bill's sponsors, House meetings should be held to discuss the issue of homophobia. That resolution was later amended to include sexual harassment...
BOTH the majority position and Defeat Homophobia's responses to the Mather dance incident of February 19 unwittingly damage the cause of greater understanding on campus...
Regrettably, both Defeat Homophobia and the majority opinion downplay the fact that the gay student may have indeed been "pushing too hard" in asking the other man to dance--by allegedly stroking his lower back and feeling his buttocks. The reaction to the gay student's advances, the claim is, was fueled primarily by the widespread homophobia that exists on campus...
True, we do not know for a fact whether the gay student did physically harass the other individual, but this is the point. How can one at this point attribute the reaction wholly or at least primarily to homophobia when it is distinctly possible that...
There were many other, more constructive means that Defeat Homophobia could have used in order to further the commendable cause of greater toleration on campus. As it turned out, it unfortunately and unwisely settled on a questionable one, the kiss-in, and then falsely attributed its non-success to "homophobia...