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...Enjoy cock," "Have a golden shower today," "Cuff a friend" or yes (horror of horrors) even "Taste Menses." Why are these sexual behaviors sensationalistic, trivializing and fundamentally indecent? As a co-chair committed to recuperating pathologized sexualities and gender identities, I am not willing to re-closet those of us who fall outside monogamy. Public visibility is a small, initial step toward avowing these privately popular but publicly denied behaviors. One person's "sensationalism" is often another's way of desiring and living. It's not worth coming out into a world where all we've done is switch...
Having bartered my way into Harvard with an essay bemoaning the difficulty of being a "normal" gay person (or, better yet, "just a person") in face of drag queens and leather daddies, I can understand the repudiation of naughty queers who apparently embody the very homophobic stereotypes that wound us so badly. Why can't they just be normal, decent and respectable like...
...year, I remember attending a Harvard University Police Department presentation on safety at Harvard, and heard other warnings from my proctor about risky behaviors to avoid--namely leaving doors unlocked or letting other people "piggyback" into the dorm. Even this year as an upperclassmen we had House/floor meetings reminding us of the safety precautions we should be taking. Instead of immediately blaming other people for the unfortunate robberies, maybe the victims should look inside themselves, realize their mistakes and chalk up this whole experience as a painful but valuable lesson to learn...
...never going to solve this crime rash--no, plague--this crime plague that is sweeping campus. We have to go to the heart of the problem. The heart of the problem is that here near Boston, we are not in small-town Wisconsin. So I have a recommendation for us all: Let's move the whole University to small-town Wisconsin. That way we can all sleep soundly, regardless of whether or not we take the time to lock our doors...
...Those of us who practice journalism in the U.S. sometimes take our freedom for granted," said Nieman Fellow William K. Krueger. "When we see someone tortured simply for protecting our sources, it's shocking...