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And it seems that many of the students of Mather House agree. In response to last weekend's incident, the most recent in a string of acts of homophobic vandalism this year aimed at tutor K. Kyriell Muhammad, Mather students are circulating a pledge of community tolerance.
The pledge, which begins, "We Live Here Together," has been signed by three-quarters of Mather residents, according to Mather House Committee Chair Wendy M. Lu '00.
Andrea Volfova '00, a House Committee member, said the pledge arose out of students' "general feeling that the House did not do enough" to respond to the recent homophobic incidents.
Justin M. Krebs '00 wrote the pledge Sunday night, and on Monday morning Krebs and Aadil T. Ginwala '00 began collecting signatures in the Mather dining hall.
In McLennan County, that message shows up everywhere from hard candies emblazoned SEX IS MINT FOR MARRIAGE to pledge cards asking kids to forswear sex. At La Vega, Tooley delivers a stern lecture on the ineffectiveness of condoms, telling students the devices fail to protect against hiv anywhere from 10...