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...Monday, March 11, a Crimson reporter called me for a comment on a Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) film and forum on abortion rights for women. I explained to this reporter that even though President Reagan opposes abortion, the Harvard Republican Club, of which I am president, is divided on the issue, and that such an informative forum was admirable. In fact, despite the club's equivocality, I am personally pro-choice. Nonetheless on Tuesday, March 12, in the article entitled "Women's Right to Abortion: Topic of Film, Discussion," I am referred to as a "pro-life" advocate...
...most recent meeting of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the following resolution was unanimously passed...
...fact that this resolution was proposed by a male student who is not a member of RUS reflects a concern about this issue which is not confined to any one interest group. This student has also approached the Undergraduate Council with a similar resolution...
...RUS urges the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to join its counterparts at the Law School and the Divinity School (where the faculties have already added the words sexual orientation to the non-discriminatory clauses) and adopt a clear policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in admissions, hiring, and housing. At this point, it is important to add that the cities of Boston and Cambridge already have a comprehensive human rights ordinance which prohibits discrimination in the areas of community services, employment, and housing on the basis of a number of criteria--among them, sexual orientation...
...Kilson views as their lack of an appropriately "cosmopolitan" identify. Such an assertion seems to be completely oblivious to the reason that the Black Students Association was formed and why it has that name, or why for that matter, the Asian American Association, the American Indians at Harvard, RUS, and a large number of other students organizations have their names, including groups like the Republican Club and the H-R Christian Fellowship. All of these organizations represent groups that have specific interests and often unique needs, that need to be addressed in some coherent fashion. And this...