Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sexism, heterosexism, and often racism, on the other hand, are the major contributors to the demeaning, though, unfortunately, honest stereotyping of Kirkland House. Too often the preponderant ingredients of Kirkland's degrading characterization--overtly male-oriented, strongly homophobic, predominately white, and often intolerant--go unacknowledged and sometimes unrecognized by students and administrators. Moreover, these elements are usually misclassified as latent qualities of Harvard athletes, and subsequently dismissed by many persons inside and outside of the house. These excusing attitudes and misnomers are the real barriers to achieving a profound and beneficial diversification of Kirkland House...
...anything is clear about the AIDS epidemic, it is that anal sex among homosexual men and needle sharing among drug addicts are still the major ways the AIDS virus is transmitted in the U.S. American victims are still overwhelmingly male: 92%. And though there is no doubt that heterosexual intercourse between intravenous drug users or bisexual men and their lovers is contributing to the spread of the disease, the number of AIDS cases traced to sex between men and women not in these high-risk groups is very low -- about 4% -- and has remained stable. But just what...
Bill Henning, a member of Yale's all-male Skull and Bones society, said one of the reasons Scroll and Key may have decided to accept women was that they were the most vulnerable to a lawsuit and that it will have little influence on the remaining all-male societies...
Henning said that Scroll and Key was legally vulnerable because it is the only all-male society that still claims a tax exemption under Connecticut law and that had been set up by an act of the state legislature...
Sarah Chinn, a student coordinator at Yale's Women's Center, said she blamed the alumni for the all-male societies' failure to admit women. "It's the alumni who want to keep a rarified all-male atmosphere," she said...