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...chock-full of rare albums by classic but obscure soul and R and B acts such as Tyrone Davis, The Stylistics, and Confunkshun. The salespeople at White's are vinyl purists who believe that compact discs and tapes undermine civilization in much the same way that old Harvey Mansfield thinks homosexuals...
Even Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53: "I have dreams about horrible goblins. [Pause] They're white. [Pause] And they have the appearance [long pause] of conventional opinions...
Such an approach denies the importance (if not the existence) of a diversity of views on campus, among professors as well as students. Though Mansfield's tenured status at Harvard implies intelligence and contributions to intellectual life, it is no way an endorsement of his views--even when those views show no sign of either intelligence or contribution to intellectual life...
...Peninsula issue two years ago was justified and appropriate. But this time around, no one on campus should glorify this mindless moralizing and homophobic hatred. The BGLSA rally last Friday and the follow-up letter in Saturday's Crimson were surely an adequate (if not excessive) response to Mansfield's vicious and baseless attacks on homosexuality...
While it is certainly too much to hope that ignoring people like Mansfield and Wasinger will make them go away, another cliche usually applied to immature children does seem apt here: The attention only encourages them...