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...letter, Gladden J. Pappin ’04 argued that the University should discipline students for certain sexual behaviors and called homosexuality “not merely immoral but perverted and unnatural...
...deeply saddened by the recent letter of Gladden J. Pappin ’04 (Letters, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” Dec. 9). His letter contained a level of hate and intolerance that I never thought I would find among Harvard undergrads...
...Surely Pappin can not be alone; he was just the first one of them who had the wherewithal to write a letter. And once we conclude that Harvard has a silent minority that practices intolerance and bigotry, what can we do about...
Gladden J. Pappin ’04 errs when he asserts that condemning Harvard’s actions in 1920 to expel homosexuals “is to declare that the College should not attempt to maintain any level of moral decency whatever” (Letters, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” Dec. 9). This is a result of Pappin’s unquestioning confidence in his interpretation of “traditional morality,” an interpretation, which as his language indicates, ultimately rests on repression, discipline and the silencing of other viewpoints...
Pappin’s comments go directly to the heart of who should compose our community. Who will be left out of Pappin’s university? Who amongst our friends, colleagues, mentors and teachers will he cast out beyond the locked gates of the Yard? Mr. Pappin, Harvard is not the Puritan college of 1636 or the New England finishing school of 1920; Harvard is the great research university of 2002. We changed and ceased to fear the diversity and freedom that tolerance permits. So should...