Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incident at the Mather dance on February 19 is only part of the issue. Whether a gay student was pushing too hard for another man to dance with him or whether the other men involved were oversensitive and ended up harassing the gay student, the reaction to the incident shows how much underlying tension exists about homosexuality on campus...
THIS implication of abnormality has pervaded the Harvard community's reaction to the events in Mather House. Many students who do not want to discuss the larger question of homophobia on campus have insisted on debating only what occurred in the initial harassment case...
Compared with the uproar in Iran and the Indian subcontinent, most of the Muslim reaction in the Middle East was mild. Though a conference of theologians meeting in Mecca denounced Rushdie as a "heretic and renegade" and reportedly demanded he be tried in absentia in an Islamic country, others argued that the case had been blown out of proportion. Hassan Saab, an adviser to the Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Lebanon, called Rushdie "an insignificant writer who has attacked a great prophet." He asked, "What harm has befallen the Prophet?" In Egypt the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheik...
...remarks seem to characterize much of the student reaction to the recently released Verba Report on the hiring of women and minorities. Students say the report--the result of more than a semester's work by a faculty panel headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53--is too weak and fails to incorporate many of their ideas, which they say would have put some punch into the plan...
...writing to the Crimson in response to two recent articles pertaining to Mather House and the alleged problem with homophobia. These articles stemmed from a BGLSA reaction to an incident in Mather House on Sunday night, February 19, 1989. The BGLSA and the Crimson have shed sufficient, if not colossal, light upon the BGLSA's version of that Sunday night incident and the issue of homophobia...