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...Central America in the face of international and domestic pressure to cut off military aid to El Salvador. This pressure comes at a time when the influence of right-wing death squads--some closely affiliated with President Alfredo Cristiani's ARENA party--is increasing. The most outrageous of the recent human rights abuses include the killing and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter, at the hands of 30 men in military dress...
...Wrong. A recent poll of University of Maryland students revealed that 90 percent had sex during their first year in college. The Harvard Independent's surveys, in contrast, show that about half of Harvard students are still virgins...
...also like to talk about romances on the extreme and avoid dealing with our own lives. The prime example of this trend is Perspective's recent oral sex survey. Sure, we all would be interested to know how many Harvard students have oral sex regularly. But what about asking how many students have even gone out on a date...
...light of recent debates about ROTC presence on campus, we feel that it is important to examine homophobia, heterosexism and their role in the military. Let's begin with a comparison, two differing views on the worth of sexual minorities. Harvard University holds that "it is unacceptable to harass or discriminate against students because of sexual orientation." The U.S. military and its campus manifestation, ROTC, contend that gays and lesbians present a security risk and such "sexual deviance" (their vocabulary) is actively discouraged. Individuals proven to have homosexual tendencies are either forced to resign or given medical discharges. Here there...
...recent issue of the Soviet weekly Ogonyok, which has campaigned against anti-Semitism, printed some of the hate mail it has received: "You Jews started this damn revolution, and now your plot to ruin Mother Russia has succeeded" and "We must not let you slink out of the country, or we'll have to hunt you down like Trotsky. We'll get you here, because that way it will be cheaper...