Word: pappin
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...center of last night’s council debate was a letter to the editor in last Monday’s issue of The Crimson, written by Gladden J. Pappin ’04, editor of the Harvard Salient, a conservative biweekly journal. In the letter, Pappin argued that the College should discipline students for certain sexual behaviors...
...yield to University President Lawrence H. Summers for the phrasing of this one): “These reports of events long ago are extremely disturbing [but] they are part of a past that we have rightly left behind.” Wrong again. Step forward Gladden J. Pappin ’04. When The Crimson had the temerity to write a staff editorial advocating that the students expelled for nothing more than sexual orientation be awarded posthumous degrees, Pappin wrote in to challenge the promotion “of lifestyles better ignored and repressed...
...Five: Well, those views are pretty shocking, but one loony isn’t symptomatic of a larger problem at Harvard. In addition to a number of hostile responses, Pappin claims to have received e-mails from nine undergraduates supporting his letter. Clearly, the view that homosexuality is vile and worthy of repression—if not quite suppression—is held by more people on campus than just he. Pappin mercifully appears to be in the sizeable minority on this issue, but he is not alone...
Salient leaders said they were surprised by the reaction and, along with Pappin, said that the letter was in no way affiliated with their magazine...
...Quincy House, with which Pappin is affiliated, the new student liaisons of the Race, Culture and Diversity Initiative posted to the House e-mail list offering support for those who wanted to discuss the letter...