Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peninsula, Harvard's bastion of Truth, Justice and Femininity has just named this season's Women of the Year. And what women they are--a conservative columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman and a whole group of women who revere a dead white cause...
Schreiber launches his latest polemic by saying that Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's moral condemnation of homosexuality lacks any logical foundation and doesn't even deserve a rational response. Schreiber then ends by comparing Mansfield and Peninsula editor Rob Wasinger to "immature children" who are only encouraged by the attention people waste on them. Then what exactly is Schreiber up to in the intervening 17 paragraphs of verbiage? I'd love to know...
...truths. True, the marketplace of ideas has its winners and losers. But even the most unprofitable merchants won't be closing up shop for a while. (Will you, Professor Mansfield?) When is the last time President Rudenstine censured a faculty member or student for offensive speech? Anyone remember the Peninsula issue on homosexuality? Peninsula editors called their word the truth. Half a dozen tenured professors--including Harvard's minister, Peter J. Gomes--called the students liars...
...still thinking. Now we're leaning toward Peninsula, because wouldn't that be a frightening costume...
...angry response to the Peninsula issue two years ago was justified and appropriate. But this time around, no one on campus should glorify this mindless moralizing and homophobic hatred. The BGLSA rally last Friday and the follow-up letter in Saturday's Crimson were surely an adequate (if not excessive) response to Mansfield's vicious and baseless attacks on homosexuality...