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...span of one week, the BGLSA celebrated National Coming Out Week, engaged in poster wars with the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) and issued a new demand for the Harvard administration to think about. In an October 9 letter to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, Oppenheimer called for the establishment of a gay student center on campus...
...response to the AALARM campaign, Joshua D. Oppenheimer '96-'97, political chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), launched a counter-campaign. The BGLSA put up vaguely threatening posters that read "AALARM: Hatred=Death." Oppenheimer, in an act of generosity, also xeroxed 200 copies of the original AALARM poster to put up next to the BGLSA posters...
Disciplining members of AALARM for violating poster guidelines would send a dangerous message to other groups with unpopular messages: if your ideas are controversial, you must be careful about sharing them with others. Harvard views itself as an institution in pursuit of truth. In moving towards the truth, we will have to deal with all kinds of arguments, be they good, bad or indifferent. The last thing we need here is a "chilling effect" that discourages people with unpopular views from speaking out. We should not stifle campus discourse just when it appears that Harvard is becoming politically energized again...
...poster targets gay and lesbian sexual practices as death. This, to us, is a distasteful and wholly inaccurate even AALARMists have enough memory of their freshness to realize that AIDS can be transmitted by a wide the fastest growing group of AIDS sufferers...
...campaign did not go completely unscathed. The Student Association (BGLSA) responded in kind . Their posters, put up alongside AALARM's, read Hatred=Death." At least this poster contained a kernel of wasteful and dilatory efforts of hate-mongers who our progress in finding a cure for AIDS, by dividing our loyalties and our purpose. Their hatred is indeed both a physical and a spiritual...