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...BGLTSA made news last month when it announced that it would hold a “kiss-in” outside the Science Center, where queer couples would kiss publicly to raise sexuality awareness...
Students from other groups including the Black Students Association (BSA), the Radcliffe Union of Students and HarvardWatch as well as advocates of ethnic, queer and Latino studies made presentations about the history and present status of their movements...
...protests. A performance by the mock a cappella group “The Callblacks” even implied Summers was racist. Nevertheless, this dispute cannot realistically be seen as a racial or ethnic problem; the administration under Summers has steadfastly resisted any attempt to atomize academic study—queer studies being one oft-overlooked example. Reasonable people may debate the merits of ethnic and queer studies—although Summers has hardly helped his cause by maintaining a stony silence—but a refusal to accept ethnic studies does not imply race bias...
...crocodile tears at West’s departure, he must take positive steps toward expanding the university’s commitment to the academic study of race and ethnicity. Strengthening the existing African-American studies department and women’s studies committee, establishing departments in Latino, ethnic and queer studies and appointing someone with a demonstrated commitment to diversity to be the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would be a good start. But making Harvard a truly diverse place, from bottom to top, would require a great deal more...
...BGLTSA will hold another meeting this Tuesday to gauge the opinions of other queer students...