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...what was the basis of AALARM's accusation? AALARM co-president E. Adam Webb '93 says he based the charge on his understanding that gays and lesbians represent 2 percent of the national population and 10 percent of the Harvard community. Comparing these figures, Webb concluded that "they are having a tip. They are hurting all other groups. It's a farce...
Ignoring for the moment that the 2 percent figure is almost certainly wrong (even in 1954, the Kinsey study reported 10 percent), Webb's reasoning is nothing short of a call for proportional representation in admissions. If the problem with gay students is that they constitute a higher percentage at Harvard than in America, what about the high percentage of Asian-American students on campus? Or of Jewish students...
...Wanda Webb Holloway, organist at the local Baptist church, is an irrepressible stage mother. Two years ago, when Shanna was up for the cheerleading team, her mother tried to have rival Amber disqualified from the competition on a technicality. Last year Holloway inadvertently got her own daughter disqualified when she showed up at school and handed out promotional pencils and rulers imprinted SHANNA HARPER CHEERLEADER...
Just this week, for example, Radcliffe Union of Students President Ann E. Blais '91 accused AALARM Co-Founder E. Adam Webb '93 of murder in a week-long murder mystery spoof written by Winthrop students and held during meals...
...doubt it," Webb said. "I seriously doubt...