Word: homophobia
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...Undergraduate Council recently voted to allocate $1,000 to the fight against homophobia at Harvard. This allocation was structured as "challenge funding...
When the council's student affairs committee considered a resolution condemning these incidents, many of the opinions voiced sounded familiar to council critics and members: We were passing another resolution and expressing another opinion without taking action. We were allowing our leadership role with regards to homophobia, one of the most pressing issues in this community, to be reduced to an eloquent litany of whereas clauses...
Challenge funding is a way to take further action on this issue. The idea behind challenge funding is that there are students and student groups interested in dealing with issues such as homophobia and that the council, as a legislative body with a leadership role in this community, should provide support to these groups and individuals...
...make challenge funding work, we need the help of concerned students and student groups in the Harvard community. Student groups that have ideas for raising awareness of and combating homophobia in our community should submit an application for this challenge funding. Such an idea would include an event, a series of events or some other form of action to raise awareness of and to combat homophobia. Creativity is encouraged...
...other council business, members voted to approve a $1,000 grant to any student group that comes up with the best project to fight homophobia at Harvard...