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LAST NOVEMBER, Harvard buzzed about Peninsula's long-awaited special issue on homosexuality. The magazine even drew national press as it sparked protests on campus at which two professors, including Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, came out of the closet...
...were, in fact, "not truly happy." What would that prove? Only that homosexuals were unhappy. Not that homosexuality was in any way "bad." Practicing gay sex can indeed be dangerous. So can practicing heterosexual sex. That doesn't make either "bad." Being a police officer can be dangerous, too. Peninsula thinks homosexuality is "unnatural"? Who cares? So is Astroturf. And cow manure is natural. Peninsula's writers should think carefully before the equate their version of "unnatural" with...
...also said controversy posters advertising a Peninsula forum titled "Spade Kicks" raised questions about "how you thread the needle between First Amendment issues and the use of racial stereotypes...
Some people at Harvard naturally assume that, say, writers on Peninsula, are rich and privileged. Or that it has a high number of legacies on its staff. These assumptions are entirely false. A large percentage of Peninsula's writers come from blue-collar back-grounds. Two of the five Peninsula Council members (that I know of) have blue-collar fathers. One Council member, who was recently called an "upper-class white kid" by a professor, really...
American colonists located farmsteads on south-facing slopes and planted windbreaks on the northern side of their homes. Residents of Cape Cod, contending with massive deforestation of their peninsula, built tidy homes with south facing windows and roofs that sloped to cast off the north wind...