Word: hrcf
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...discrimination...is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University.” I was thus very surprised when the joint student-faculty Committee on College Life (CCL) voted 8-4 to abandon these principles and allow discrimination on our campus by giving the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) the right to remain an accredited student group...
Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 should have forced HRCF to change its constitution or lose College recognition. The Committee on College Life’s decision is a surprising and irresponsible change in the position of the administration, which should be enforcing the school’s non-discrimination policy more vigorously in the future...
...persecutors of HRCF charge the group with discrimination, but fail to produce a victim—except for the group’s legitimacy and right to promote unpopular beliefs...
...hard to imagine a secular group like the College Democrats facing similar attacks for rejecting a leadership candidate who is also an executive of the Harvard Republican Club. HRCF is merely forthright about the ideological lines it considers necessary both to protect the goals of its organization and to challenge a campus that would rather see religious doctrine whispered behind closed doors...
...HRCF contributes to the larger diversity of ideas on campus and serves several dozen members, more than adequate reason for council funding and the privilege of meeting in the University’s student spaces. Dubious attacks on the group’s credibility, under the guise of preventing discrimination, gives credence to those who consider Harvard openly hostile to religion...