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Last Tuesday, K. Kyriell Muhammad announced his intention to resign from his position as resident tutor of Mather House after a rash of homophobic acts of vandalism this year. Muhammad's departure at the end of the semester will be a loss to the entire community but is particularly a...
The homophobic graffiti scrawled on Muhammad's door last week, the fourth such personally directed attack he has faced this semester and the catalyst in his decision to resign, was the first such incident to occur since the pledge was signed. Muhammad, the advisor to the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender...
These acts of homophobic graffiti in Winthrop, Mather and Adams Houses this year are the first in recent memory. In this sense, they are isolated incidents that do not reflect a prevailing homophobic sentiment on campus. As the student-initiated "We Live Here Together" pledge posted in Mather Dining Hall...
Still, crimes motivated by hate--even in the smallest amounts--sends a clear message of intolerance to the entire gay community. Unfortunately, because the acts appear to be the work of one or a few isolated individuals and do not reflect a campus-wide sentiment, the House Masters and administration...
Every community must inevitably grapple with hateful and malicious crimes by lone individuals, but that does not make the current situation more palatable for the gay members of our community who now feel that much less comfortable in a place they should feel is their home. While it is frustrating...