Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitterness and anger of Mather students whose friends were involved in the original incident is easy to understand. They see themselves as victims of political exploitation and grandstanding, as an incident which should belong to the Ad Board alone is taken out of context and used to galvanize a campaign that portrays them as insensitive, morally constipated bigots for daring to try to set the record straight. Important as are the issues of homosexual rights and the need to end homophobic violence, it did not take long for the debate at Mather to become a sweeping demonization of anyone with...
...subsequent effort to persuade house residents to put large pink triangles in their windows as gestures of solidarity with harassed homosexuals on campus seemed, in context--to many Mather students--highly inappropriate under the circumstances. The tactics used to push pink triangles on reluctant students were as open and empathetic as the Mather House meeting a few days before: if you felt uncomfortable displaying a large pink triangle, you were aiding and abetting the brainless homophobic thugs of the world. Silence, after all, equals death. Is it surprising that Mather has lived up to the dark prophesies that...
Defeat Homophobia is right when it insists (at least to Mather students) that the harassment of homosexuals and the as yet unresolved incident should be separate issues. But for the present, at Mather, they cannot be. Defeat Homophobia did everything in its power to ensure this. As long as they are not separate issues, they should not be pushed further--for the sake of the very cause Defeat Homophobia espouses. Now it is time for the gay community to show the bit of understanding they correctly urge upon the rest of society: to realize that what will most help...
Christopher A. Ford '89 is a Mather resident...
Here, in summary, are my opinions concerning the events at the Mather House party on Sunday night, February...