Word: melissas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senior Melissa Kreuder then laced a clean single between the first and second baseman, bringing home the winning...
...writing in response to Melissa Langsam's piece, "The Last Oppressed Minority" (Opinion, March 31), in which she parallels political intolerance for Republicans with the discrimination that historically persecuted sexual, ethnic and religious minorities have faced for centuries. She writes of "being in the closet" as a Republican while here at Harvard, comparing the historically homosexual hiding place with her own reticence about her political beliefs. Such a comparison is disingenuous at best, downright offensive at worst. Homosexuals have been actively discriminated against from the Holocaust to the Red Scare, and I am not aware of any such movements...
...Reading Melissa R. Langsam's "The Last Oppressed Minority" (Opinion, March 31), in which she wrote about friends expressing shock and even revulsion when she admitted to being a Republican led me to realize that our stereotype of conservatives as close-minded is a prejudice just as egregious as stereotyping all African-Americans as thieves or all Jews as misers. I think a large number of people, especially upon arriving at a campus as diverse as Harvard's, is overwhelmed by the realization of just how big the world is, and how many different ways there are of living...
...accurate, however, and I would assert that there are far more Republicans who are conservative from conviction--and lack any strong sentiment against people different from themselves--rather than from fear. I find racial bigotry or intolerance of alternative lifestyles offensive, but I also recognize that students such as Melissa Langsam are by no means necessarily bigots, and I think it is a shame that many Republicans suffer from the prejudices laid upon them. One of my roommates for next year is Republican to the core, but he is not conservative because of any fear of diversity, rather because...
...Melissa R. Langsam '00 is a first-year living in Hurlbut...