Word: protesters
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...what, except that the author has somewhat lazily not bothered to invent his own central figure? But the burden of the novel is that Luke Fairchild is a monster of charm and talent, adulated for the purity of his counterculture protest. And, as Spencer tells it, he abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges...
...expressions of homosexual desire on campus. If Harvard and our larger communities are to accept queers, we must accept them culturally as well as politically. We must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded from moral behavior because of the "threat" they pose to America's social cohesion. SIMON J. DEDEO '00 April...
...group of four high school students in my native Connecticut was suspended from Middletown High School last week after showing up for school in dresses and skirts. One Bryan Giles had been previously suspended for his choice of attire, and a group of his friends all cross-dressed to protest; they were consequently given three-day suspensions and told to change into something a little more respectable...
...wasn't long ago that women who wore pants to school would have been treated the same way. Now women can be seen peaceably wearing whatever they please, from ties to army fatigues to just about anything else. (The women who dressed in suits in Giles' protest were not suspended...
While Harvard students may continue to rally, protest and vocalize passionately about the need for causes like ethnic studies, they pay all-too-little political and vocal attention to financial aid. Maybe that's because of the fact that in spite of all the diversity on this campus, a significant majority come from surprisingly similar backgrounds with regard to their financial need. Perhaps, if and when the College institutes more ethnic studies classes, it will include a class on the "Ethnicity of Poverty" or one called "Lifestyles Beyond the Ivory Tower." Oh, what a different world that would...