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There is often an odd split-mind at Harvard, where we can study Plato's Symposium and the fragments of Sappho, Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich '51, yet emerge from the seminar room to find only disgust and fear in expressions of homosexual desire on campus. If Harvard and our larger communities are to accept queers, we must accept them culturally as well as politically. We must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded...
...SECOND SYMPOSIUM...
This was one of the primary questions addressed at a symposium on the New England Holocaust Memorial yesterday at Faneuil Hall. Among the panelists were Associate Professor of Government Daniel J. Goldhagen '81; James E. Young, associate professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Margot Stern Strom, executive director of the educational non-profit organization Facing History and Ourselves; and Leonard Zakim, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League...
...symposium, which discussed the two-year old monument near Fanueil Hall, attempted to determine generally how history becomes memory and more specifically how that Holocaust should be remembered...
According to Zhurek, the symposium has become a landmark meeting place for top world economic and business leaders...