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...first of many excursions out of the protected world of GSA's Saturday night dances at Phillips Brooks House (PBH), Schatz and a few other Adams House friends would try going to House parties, attempting to integrate Harvard social life with tactics reminiscent of 1960s Freedom Riders. "So many times, I remember, we would go to a Mather House party, start dancing and the party would stop all of a sudden and we would be told to leave. It was pretty ridiculous; there were four of us out of 40 people at a party and people would get upset...
...seemingly ominous confrontation two nights before GLAD Day, Lowell I. McGee '80, was attacked at PBH while helping clean up after a gay dance. The assailant, John A. Francis '83 was apprehended by University Police, but McGee--in a politically masterful maneuver--agreed not to press charges if Francis would publicly apologize at the upcoming GLAD Day. He did, telling 1000 students. "I guess it is just the way I was brought up. I come from a very small town with no open gay community. I've just never been exposed to it before...
...Wesley Foundation, at the time the largest religious student organization on campus, criticized the exclusion of names as incompatible with the Christian ideals that a church should represent. And the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBH), another organization that disapproved of the restricted dedication, took its protest one step further, obtaining a copy of the original pledge form, which stipulated the terms of the contributions. The form read: "To enable Harvard College, in reliance upon this and other subscriptions, to build and endow a University Church as a memorial to the Harvard men who lost their lives in the World...
Since the pledge form contained no stipulation that the memorial commemorate only the Allied dead and since the five contributions that had been made on individual terms similarly contained no restrictive stipulations, PBH unanimously adopted a resolution contesting the Corporation's decision...
...cases that come before small claims courts read like a dossier on human nature--normal, bizarre, humorous and, sometimes, personally tragic. One case that came up before the PBH group this summer gave new meaning to "problem solving". Known simply as the "skunk case," a woman brought her landlord to court for an unusual claim of negligence. The air vent in the ceiling of the woman's apartment had been falling off regularly; and the landlord then fixed it, to his credit. However, when a small skunk found its way through the roof and into the air vent, the grate...