Word: representations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Edmund Morris: A great president should embody with out any equivocation the hopes and desires of the American people at the time of his election. I think in the case of Theodore Roosevelt, the new young president (he was the youngest we've ever had, by the way) embodied the...
Clifford S. Davidson '02, who is helping to coordinate today's effort as well as organize this new group, said the BGLTSA claims to represent all members of the gay community, but their tactics actually alienate many students.
BGLTSA co-chair Michael A. Hill '02 said his group recognizes the diversity of the group's constituent population but did not intend to represent all students with the posters.
To insist solely that coming out in and of itself should be a political statement is to encourage a destructive reductionism of self. It is a group saying to a closeted individual, "Your thoughts and passions belong to us and our agenda, now, and we will represent them on posters...
Perhaps the most tragic flaw in the current manifestation of Coming Out Day is that we are putting words in closeted students' mouths. Ironically, though, these students haven't even spoken, yet. They may not yet be ready to speak, yet we attempt to lure them out of the closet...