Word: salient
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This has enraged the "stop it all nows." Kevin A. Shapiro '99, in a Harvard Salient piece on Oct. 27, argues that political advocacy for change does not fall under the rubric of social action and therefore should not be done at PBHA. After all, goes his reasoning, PBHA is a service organization and should stay apolitical. Alex S. Herzlinger '00, son of the Business School professor whom PSLM has targeted, argued similarly that the new trend toward social action isn't part of the mission of PBHA...
...October 27 issue of The Salient featured not only Naomi A. Schaefer's '98 attack on National Coming Out Day and Joshua P. Garoon's '98 endorsement of employment discrimination against gay men and lesbians, but Marriah Star's '98 take on Candace Gingrich, Newt's lesbian sister. The conservative obsession with homosexuality becomes poignantly apparent with this single issue. And I thought I was obsessed with queerness...
...alone in my preoccupation. Schaefer argues against queer activism stating, "Most of Harvard is not homosexual, and most of Harvard doesn't care if you are." For a mantra against gay and lesbian activism, such an argument hardly holds water. In fact, the entire issue of The Salient disproves such a claim of apathy with its three articles lobbying repetitively against gay and lesbian equality and visibility. Queer activism is necessary on this campus and in the world until attitudes like those expressed in The Salient disappear entirely...
...discrimination is real. Last year, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act--which would have made job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation illegal--did not pass in Congress. Reading The Salient last week reminded me of the sad truth of our political climate. As gay men and lesbians, we are still not tolerated in this world...
...appearance at Harvard was sponsored by the Salient, a conservative student magazine...