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Such shock is, at best, disingenuous. We are perfectly aware that homophobia thrives at Harvard--one need only look to the ROTC debates of last spring for an official and officious example--yet it offends our delicate sensibilities to admit it. It is better to denounce these events as aberrations in an otherwise flawless surface and discuss them as if they were unpalatable only insofar as they are breaches of good manners, mere exercises in poor taste...
...best argument in favor of student government is that someone ought to represent student opinion on issues affecting the College to the administration, which has real governing power. The council performed this role admirably and courageously during last year's ROTC debate, ultimately passing a resolution urging the administration to facilitate students' participation in the corps. However, shortly after the resolution passed in council vote, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 met with the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporter's Alliance and quickly announced that despite the council's opinion, no changes in University policy would...
...ROTC debate typified an emerging trend in campus politics. When it comes to hot-button campus issues, students have, by and large, left the council for issue-specific special-interest groups. And these new groups--the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, etc.--seem to have more traction with the administration, demonstrated by their recently won concessions. When Dean Lewis ignores the (supposed) interests of the entire student body to heed the concerns of a small and interested faction thereof, it is evident that student government is no longer the best avenue for influencing the administration...
...Davis' case, that service began in 1967, when, with a history degree from Stanford and a law degree from Columbia, he pulled his ROTC duty. It was in Vietnam, he says, that he saw America for the first time, and it changed him. "I was really offended by the notion that this war was being fought largely by minorities and Southern whites," he said. Three years later, the whitest man in America was finance director for the mayoral campaign of a black man--Tom Bradley of Los Angeles. His next job was chief of staff for Jerry Brown, and Davis...
Almost a quarter of the 200-some students enrolled in MIT's introductory accounting class last year were cross-registered from Harvard. According to the registrar's office at MIT, after ROTC, accounting draws the most Harvard students to their campus...