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Welcoming that challenge also means dealing equitably with groups with which was disagree. So we were troubled by the manner in which the Harvard Foundation bestowed grants to student organizations this year. The race relations office proffered funding to the rag, a feminist magazine and to HQ, a gay-issues magazine. But the office, whose mandate is to award grants that promote interracial understanding last year denied funding to Peninsula, an often-inflammatory right-wing publication whose editors were planning an issue devoted to race relations. Again, the conflict between diversity and open expression became a matter of campus debate...
...emergence of such magazines as Yisei (Korean-American), HQ (gay, lesbian and bisexual), the rag (feminist) and Point of Reference (Greek-American) forms only part of identity politics. Rallies and angry letters form some of the other salvos...
...When I first came to Harvard, [Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Afro-American Studies Phillip B.] Harper was one of the few outlets to find out what gay life was like at Harvard," said William T. Dougherty '94, editor and founder of HQ, a student publication about gay, lesbian and homosexual issues...
Here's one example: last year Peninsula, a conservate magazine, asked the Foundation for a grant to fund an issue on race relations--a topic which clearly falls within the Foundation's stated interests. They were turned down. Yet this fall, HQ received money for a magazine that has little to do with race, according to the Foundation's strict definition...
...Foundation is to award fewer grants, the money at its discretion should be limited. HQ, the rag and other organizations that don't fall into the Foundation's decidedly narrow mandate should still be able to find sources of funding. That would mean decreasing the amount of money the College gives the Foundation, and diverting funds into another source, perhaps to house committees Epps' office...