Word: peninsulas
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...other hand, examples of student groups' attempts to solicit the sympathies of the larger public abound. The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association led the protests that followed the November 1991 edition of Peninsula. At an eat-in at the Union, the BGLSA exposed many members of the Class of '95 to homosexual activism for the first time...
Other publications--The Salient, The Independent, Perspective, Peninsula--cover identity issues as well. It is hard to believe that students who are not identity-politics activists have no means of ascertaining the contending views in any given debate...
...Democratic and Republican groups on campus are practically nonexistent. Some groups on the right--the Conservative Club, The Harvard Salient, the Peninsula--have stayed alive on the strength of their claims to be oppressed minorities. Similar groups on the left, like the Progressive Students Association, are tiny or dying...
Allen's year in office came at the same time as a resurgence of right-wing activism on campus. Two new groups, the far-right journal Peninsula and AALARM, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religious and Morality, started up just as the Republican Club began staking out a more conservative and more outspoken stance under the leadership of then-President Sumner E. Anderson...
Johnson also credits Allen with influencing her to become more of an activist. In December of 1991, Johnson was one of the faculty members who spoke at a rally protesting a controversial Peninsula issue on homosexuality. She agrees with Allen that she probably would not have spoken had not Allen asked her personally...