Word: pappin
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...more than ever, The Salient has become so reactionary that its views no longer raise a campus eyebrow. Nobody cares to discuss The Salient’s long, meandering article defending anti-homosexual bias. Its author, Gladden J. Pappin ’04, wrote a letter to The Crimson last semester in which he declared that Harvard should crack down on homosexuality as it had in the 1920 secret court uncovered by a Fifteen Minutes scrutiny. Now, many months later, he has written to “correct several misunderstandings...
...Pappin explains that, in the vein of “Aristotelian-Thomistic” thought, any human action which fails “to fulfill a given end is immoral.” When it comes to our bodies, that end must be the creation of a new human being. Since homosexuality cannot do this, Pappin concludes it is therefore immoral and perverted...
...course, Pappin’s argument is little more than an attempt to deflect blame from his own views. Are we seriously to believe that Pappin was pretty neutral about this whole homosexual vs. heterosexual thing until he took a few Moral Reasoning classes or sat through a few lectures in an introductory class to philosophy? It would take a lot to convince me that his words are anything but long-held personal views cushioned with what he has picked up from Harvard...
...associate editors; Jean M. Flannery ’04 and Paul E. Kwak ’03 senior writers; Joseph F. Keefe ’04 and Rebecca M. Milzoff ’04, staff artists; Boleslaw Z. Kabala ’03 and Gladden J. Pappin ’04, editors emiriti; and Francis X. Altiere IV ’04, publisher emeritus and social chair. Schultz and Winerman are also Crimson editors...
...Member Gladden J. Pappin ’04 extols the appeal of the sport. “I don’t know if there’s a particular attraction but, once you get good, it’s really fun,” Pappin says. “It’s definitely taken away some time from academic pursuits...