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...other groups it isn't as easy. "I'd say we don't have a lot of friends at University Hall," GSA vice-president Jonathan Handel '82 says. He notes that one dean told him that "most of University Hall feels the same way" as Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Harvard Center for Behavioral Sciences, who last May wrote a letter to the Harvard Independent endorsing "negative societal pressures" to discourage homosexuality...
...When you have an audience that isn't very receptive anyway, you have to be very clear," GSA President J. French Wall '83 says, adding that GSA's lobbying and protests are often not received as positively as the actions of other minority groups. Wall notes that when 10,000 copies of a letter signed by the class marshals and calling for a University non-discrimination policy were distributed at Commencement two years ago no reference to this was made in Harvard Magazine, which did mention a similar protest about El Salvador...
Most groups, however, seem to fall somewhere between these two extremes. Lacking the power of RUS's alumni constituency and friends, but also lacking GSA's entrenched opposition, they design their tactics accordingly. In fact, the BSA's biggest obstacle may be the seemingly decreased urgency of the issues confronting Blacks on campus. BSA President Curtis Hairston '84 says that there has been a decline in the old and "obvious" issues. The battle for a third world student center, which rallied many minorities two years ago was resolved with the formation of the race-relations Foundation. The struggle to strengthen...
...GSA is currently forming Harvard University Gays (HUG), a group of alumni who will help in funding and lobbying efforts. Gay alumni were instrumental in the production of Lavender-Portfolio, a new gay literary journal, Wall says, adding that alumni contributed some funds, and took care of the offsetting. The alumni group held a dinner last year for graduating gay students and their parents and have two fundraisers scheduled for this year, Wall says, adding that he thinks alumni contributions may reach $50,000 this year when the group obtains non-profit status...
...introduce the Harvard community to Chicano culture, Patricia Corrales '84, a member of the group's steering committee, says. ABLE is working on a slide and video presentation to be shown in the Science Center this fall, dispelling myths about the disabled perpetuated in the popular culture. And the GSA again last year held Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day (GLAD) to change some stereotypes. "What we're trying to do with things like GLAD is to get people to talk about it," GLAD co-chair Jenny Rudolph '84 says, adding, "I don't care whether what they say is good...