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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight-gay alliance" can work together cooperatively, or at least arrive at some modus vivendi. In the meantime, we welcome this new addition to the family of student groups and look forward to its work on campus. And, perhaps more urgently, we look forward to some announcement of its name...
...This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away from the graveness of life, but a poignant attempt to raise something up out of the ruins of broken ideals without the recourse of myth. Futile, maybe--since irony...
...Once they understood our policy of reserving the name for University-wide activities, they changed [their publication's name]," Hess said...
...remains unclear whether Harvard took action because the club's publication violated the University's trademark policy, or whether administrators simply preferred that the club not use the Harvard name in the newsletter. Of late, the University has become increasingly concerned that organizations beyond the control of the University administration will misrepresent...
...added that the name change caused extra paperwork and might have led to confusion among subscribers...