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...president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Conservative Club (HRCC) in two separate letters issued to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and the Harvard Radcliffe Gay Students Association (GSA), refused to apologize for an April Fools Day poster distributed by the HRCC and called for a "reprimand or formal censure" of GSA members...
...GSA and other groups reacted angrily to the poster, which listed as its sponsors "U.G.L.Y. (United Gays and Lesbians for Yuks), the Harvard Football Team Lesbians, and the Society for the Riddance of Fat. Hideous, and Shrill-Voiced Feminists...
...letter addressed to the GSA. Hilary A. Kinal, president of the HROC, called the GSA's reaction to the poster "over-sensitive, anti-social, and paranoid" and suggested that members "move to Communist Cuba, where homosexuals are put in jail, so that you could have a real enemy to fight...
...would ignore the GSA's potent arguments why it--more than fat students or similar groups--deserves the protection of an explicit nondiscrimination policy. Unlike minority applicants for admission to the College, gay students may feel reluctant to enumerate their gay-related activities on an application. A policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation would help allay this fear--along with the physical fear many gay students say they feel on campus...
Harvard can deny GSA's request. That would be legal; it would not be right. The University should affirm its commitment to all students by adopting a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...