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...share these worries. But we do not endorse the solution recommended by the AAA, BSA and GSA. Our reasoning follows that of many civil rights activists, whose motto for much of the last century was drawn from the language of a Supreme Court case: "one-man, one-vote." We object to tampering with electoral democracy in order to aid one group or interest; we object to such tampering be it by whites in the Southern United States or New York City, or by minorities in something so insignificant as student government. When district lines were redrawn in the Mississippi Delta...
...Thursday, members of three minority organizations--the Asian-American Association (AAA), the Black Students Associations (BSA), and the Gay students Association (GSA)--issued statements demanding special representatives on the new council and warning that they would oppose the council's formation without such representation...
...statement, made by Vada Hill '81-4, was partially retracted yesterday by BSA president Gaye Williams '83, who said her organization has not yet formulated its official position on the council. The GSA students' statement also was toned down by GSA president French Wall '83, who said gay and lesbian students want "some kind of guarantee" that they will be represented on the council, but that something less than full voting membership might be acceptable...
While the editorial supposedly calls for equal treatment for Gays, in reality it implores us to extend not equal but special treatment to this group. The Crimson is unhappy with the way the Gay Students Association (GSA) was treated by the Faculty Council even though the so-called "quashing" of the GSA's request for leaflets in registration packets applied equally to every student group on campus. Using some unarticulated but obviously twisted logic, the Crimson interpreted this policy as an affront directed exclusively at the Gay community. For some unknown reason, none of the other student groups suffered...
...fact, the Crimson may have harmed the Gay movement here at Harvard more than it helped. Straight students, which the Crimson says should "mobilize" with GSA, are fast becoming disenchanted with the constant barrage of Gay literature like the "Victory" piece. Moreover, the more militant Gays who publicly flaunt their homosexuality only generate greater resistance and resentment among "straights" who might otherwise have easily accepted the Gay movement. Who isn't offended by public sexuality--be it performed by Gays or straights...