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...writing to clarify a serious misinterpretation in The Crimson's article, "Council Will Ask Houses to Discuss Homophobia" (March 6). While the resolution I sponsored does in fact call on the masters of the houses and the freshmen senior advisors to "engage students and tutors in an open discussion of issues of sexual orientation, including attitudes toward gay and lesbian students," it does not and was never intended to involve the entire campus in a discussion of "the alleged harassment of a gay Mather House resident last month," as the article asserts...
...word homophobia implies fear of homosexuality, and it is definitely fear--combined with ignorance--that has characterized many students' reactions thus far. But gay students deserve to be treated with respect, not with fear or hatred. And it is only through true tolerance, exchange of ideas and open-minded acceptance of the validity of other lifestyles that this fear can ever be dispelled in this community...
Episode Three: (January 1989, Winthrop House dining hall, lunch). A pretty cold day, so I opt for the clam chowder. Wrong move. As I go to open my package of S.S. Pierce Saltines my friend points out the very appetizing fact that it has little rat-sized bite marks. I give the crackers to the dining hall checker who promises to bring it to the attention of the proper persons...
...least at Winthrop House, (where food personnel told me that they frequently open up in the morning to find rats walking across the grill) the feeling is that the University's and the exterminator's control measures are far from adequate: "I don't know what poison the exterminator feeds them, but they just keep getting bigger." At Eliot House, the sentiment is that for some unexplained reason the rats have recently been "more active" than normal...
...April 4, Opening Day, Baltimore. The Sox open the season under the cloud of the second installment of Margo Adams's kiss-and-tell expose in Penthouse magazine. Adams is reaping huge profits from the expose and a new book, titled A Cesspool of Sleaze...