Word: mathering
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Recent controversy surrounding the alleged harassment of a gay Mather House student indicates that students and house masters need to make a greater effort to address homophobia on campus, President Bok said in an interview yesterday...
Since the alleged harassment on February19--the details of which still remainunclear--Mather students have been divided on thequestion of homophobia in the house...
...other man. To be sure, had the incident involved a man stroking a woman's behind after she had repeatedly told him to go away, there would have been few "progressively-minded" supporters for the man--even had the woman's friends pushed the man around, as happened at Mather...
SIMILARLY, the majority laments the reaction to the Mather kiss-in, noting that had heterosexuals staged a kiss-in the reaction would have been "different" A heterosexual kiss-in in the dining hall during meal hours surely would have offended many students as well. Simply put, this form of protest--whether used by gays or hetersexuals--stretches the limits of good taste and consequently suffers as an effective means of protest...
...Mather dance and kiss-in, to blame homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...