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...wouldn’t take milk from a gay person.” With these words, which might seem unthinkable to today??s Harvard student, one Quincy House resident refused to use a milk carton his housemate Michael G. Colantuono ’83 had touched.But in 1981, Colantuano and others were starting to fight these attitudes.“It was a very fertile, very exciting, very energetic time,” says Colantuono, who was secretary of the Gay Students Association (GSA) during the 1980-81 school year. This April, Harvard announced that it would amend...
...Violence permeates today??s society and affects each of our lives,” they wrote. “Now is the time to take back the night...
...overjoyed with the changes that have taken place. There is grumbling about the fact that Harvard has just lost its president, driven from office for, among other sins, expressing his own ideas about the apparent dearth of women in the ranks of scholars in the sciences. The fact that today??s college administrators, as well as faculty, are at risk of being publicly pilloried by expressing “wrong” ideas cuts deeply into the psyches of graduates whose collegiate experiences were formed during the dark days of the 1950s.The fifties were a risky period...
...speech to the Associated Harvard Clubs, a group of alumni, in the spring of 1956. Calling the speech the “most serious and important” of his presidency up to that point, Pusey declared that Harvard needed $40 million—the equivalent of $287.5 million today??to meet the “building needs” of just those currently enrolled at the University.Pusey’s remarks came only one year after the publication of an Overseers’ report that advocated the expansion of the College—both in infrastructure...
...early, and the three boats jostled back and forth throughout the course.“I still think that had we raced a little better race we could have gotten second,” varsity bow-man Brian Aldrich said. “But with the way Cornell rowed today??it would have been tough for us to hang with them.”The race for second reached its zenith in the final 500 meters, when Navy, Harvard, and Yale appeared in a near-deadlock as the boats came into view. The Midshipmen pushed forward to claim...