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...committee went back to work. And one of its members came up with the suggestion--otherwise known as the substitute motion--that the College establish a second registration packet into which all student groups could stuff their materials. That seemed like a good idea to everyone but the GSA; Dean Fox told the committee, "I certainly can see no obstacle to that. . ." (in translation, "Yes."), and somebody made a motion. The bureaucracy prevailed upon Robert's Rules, CHUL voted on the motion and--poof--the second packet existed. The problem was gone...
...GSA MEMBERS, it turns out, made their biggest mistake when they decided to raise the issue with Epps. If they had been smart--like the folks over at Phillips Brooks House (PBH) were at the beginning of the year--they would have showed up in Holyoke Center during intercession, pamphlets in hand, and stuffed the envelopes. That, after all, is what PBH did, as Margaret E. Law, registrar of the College, remembers. Somebody in Law's office "discovered them stuffing their pamphlets into the packets one day," Law says, and, well, PBH had stuffed too many envelopes to ask them...
...talk about motions and rules, the key issue had been lost. Why did Epps decide to review the policy following the GSA request? "The difference here," he says, "is that other groups have gone to the registrar. The association raised it with...
...students don't buy this explanation. Given what can at best be called an inconsisten policy and given past practice, the GSA calls his action "blatant discrimination." Whatever Epps' justification, his decision looks like discrimination. Apparently, administrators would rather face this charge at a CHUL meeting than allow gay students to stuff their pamphlet into registration packets...
...GSA pamphlet provides information about homosexuality just as the United Ministry pamphlet provides information about religious groups. And if Harvard would let ART--in actuality, an independent corporation and not an official Harvard group--get its money-making message to the students, why not the GSA, whose problems in reaching students are acute...