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...understand that peninsula often endorses views that campus groups justifiably find offensive. We recognize that Peninsula's race relation issue was likely to embody an agenda very different from the Foundation's. But while we did not expect--or want--the Foundation to endorse Peninsula's views, we were concerned that the race relations office lacked a clear sense of its won mandate and wound up giving money only to one side of the political fence. We cannot ignore the Peninsulas in our midst. We have to listen to them. If we disagree and usually, we do--we should respond...
Other eruptions have occurred. In November 1991, the staff of the conservative journal Peninsula angered gays and their supporters with a 56-page indictment of homosexuality. Last March, Asian students protested when Junior Parents Weekend organizers initially left Asian-American speakers off three race-relations panels...
...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...