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...students were admitted for their merits and more overt perspectives rather than their choice of bedfellow. If an applicant’s sexual orientation is an important part of his identity, nothing stops him, her, zhim or zer from discussing it. But, attempts to balance a class for sexual orientation??as might be done for other measures of diversity—would be misleading.  Indeed, forcing the issue upon applicants, and then using the information to determine the composition of the admitted class would be unfair and ineffective...

Author: By Ryan M. Rossner | Title: Should Colleges Ask? | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

...attorney general cited the Virginia Human Rights Act, which singled out race, color, religion, national origin, and sex as affiliations deserving of special protections—but not sexual orientation. He also pointed out that the General Assembly has voted 25 times not to include “sexual orientation?? in various nondiscrimination measures since...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Misguided Letter | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...York Times—that everyone’s been talking about and that I, as usual, have missed. But on the flight from Newark to Tel Aviv, when the attendant passed through the aisle offering up a selection of newspapers to suit any American political orientation??Ha’aretz for the liberals, The Jerusalem Post for the conservatives, or the Times for those who didn’t know the difference between one and the other—I stumbled upon what has proven to be, in Israel at least, the buzz article of the month...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: An End in Sight? | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...parent, you have a child in your arms, the child is critically ill,” Kornan said: “You don’t ask about the sexual orientation of the doctor.” A political candidate—regardless of sexual orientation??should run on competence, intelligence, and honesty, she said. While Korman encouraged candidates to be up-front about their sexual orientation, she said a politician should not depend on this facet alone. “You don’t hide who you are, but you don?...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LGBT Politicians Open Up | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...spoke the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, a man with witticisms and grandfatherly maxims in no short supply. Harvard’s class of 1967 appropriated the first half of this particular idiom last December when warning of the “careerist, vocational orientation?? to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference” on display in post-millennial Harvard undergraduates.This letter, now nearly forgotten, always seemed to be born from Sixties sanctimony, but it was correct in its observation that socialism...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Marx Druthers | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

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