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...Melendez continues, "There's a message that needs to be brought from the academic community to the Christian community which is that you should celebrate your religion in the tradition of the larger pluralistic culture which we're a part, rather than celebrate it as a crusade against the evil that dwells in everything that you're not a part...
FRIENDS SAY MELENDEZ has mellowed significantly since he first hit Cambridge. Early on, says former Council chairman Gregory S. Lyss '85, who is known for his colorful language, Brian would tell him, `"Come on Greg let's cut out the F-word' or `Let's cut out the S-word."' Lyss says Melendez eased up after a while...
Another friend recounts an April Fools joke Melendez played on the Independent last spring, after the fact that the weekly newspaper paid no rent for its Canaday Hall offices was raised in a Council meeting (the Council has to pay for a smaller space beneath Canaday...
...Melendez, the friend says, sent the Independent a series of forged letters from Faculty Secretary John P. Marquand and then-Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 on University Hall stationary demanding that the Indy pay $15,000 for its offices. The letters, true to Melendez form, featured exhaustive documentation, appendices, footnotes, and cross-references. The Independent, not suprisingly, fell for the ploy...
...Melendez, after a year off, heads a few hundred yards north of Canaday Hall to Harvard Law School. In the meantime, he is looking for a job and maintaining close ties to the Council, where he served as a loud and often nettlesome back-bencher this year. Melendez also worked this year as a paid executive secretary to the Council, a move Touhey says did not help him gain a sense of independence and self-confidence. "Brian at Harvard has developed so much of his identity from the Undergraduate Council," Touhey says...