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...glad Alan E. Wirzbicki ("Bleeding-Heart Conservatives", Sept. 24, 1999) read the cover story about Harvard conservatives in the current Harvard Magazine. For the record, the article "doesn't even pretend to be objective." It is a signed, personal piece of writing, just as was, for example, Andrew Tobias's "Gay Like Me," the cover story for January-February 1998, an account of the experience of being homosexual at the College and elsewhere in the University...
When I read Alan E. Wirzbicki's column "Bleeding-Heart Conservatives" I was simply appalled. In the article, he castigated conservatives who claimed to be a "minority" at Harvard and attacked the legitimacy of events such as the Conservative Coming-out Dinner...
...member of the Republican Club Board and a conservative, I think Wirzbicki couldn't be more wrong. Consistently conservatives are blitzed by liberal professors, teaching fellows, and classmates. The looks of utter disgust I received at the Freshman Activities Fair as I pleaded for people to sign up for the Republican Club would have constituted calls of "insensitivity" if I was representing a "minority" organization...
...While Wirzbicki asserts that conservatives aren't socially isolated on campus, I can't remember the last time I saw a card-carrying member of the NRA hanging out with a hippie or seeing Professor Harvey C. Mansfield and Professor Cornel West having a cold one at the Grille...
...Wirzbicki's reasons for dismissing Republican assertions of prejudice are weak to say the least. He uses as evidence of conservative equality on campus the fact that the last two presidents of the Undergraduate Council were Republicans. No one, however, would assert that the succession of racial minorities to positions of prominence in many organizations in itself proves that no racial animosity exists...