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Andrea F. Volfova...
...Andrea Volfova '00, a House Committee member, said the pledge arose out of students' "general feeling that the House did not do enough" to respond to the recent homophobic incidents...
Last week, the House Committee posted a declaration of tolerance entitled "The Mather House Creed" in the dining hall, in response to several incidents of homophobic vandalism in September. Volfova said the House Committee has not responded publicly to the Saturday incident because it does not want to alienate students with a different point of view regarding homosexuality...
...Volfova and Lu agreed that the pledge--student-initiated, independent of the House, HoCo and all other University organizations--was a perfect way for the Mather community to voice its support for Muhammad and Harvard's gay community in general...
...Volfova added that the pledge serves to rectify the notion that Mather House is an intolerant, homophobic place...
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