Word: letter
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While these events are clear, it appears that the letter commenting on them submitted by Morris Rattner and me does not lend itself to such clear reading. Or so it would seem by the way in which the Crimson staff editorial misread...
...letter had two purposes. The first was to inform the Harvard community of the excessive violence used in the police actions and to suggest that there were more humane ways of enforcing its law. The second intent was to link their violence to a greater, more pervasive ill: the omnipresent homophobia infecting so much of our culture...
...That letter was never intended as a comprehensive list of alternative enforcement procedures to curb sex in the bathroom; the suggestions were in parentheses. We do have real proposals for resolving the issue and do not deserve to have them mischaracterized in the form of ludicrous suggestions such as putting up a sign simply saying...
Your poor efforts at covering the more sensitive aspects of the case--printing names and then carelessly commenting on the letter--gives me pause to shudder...
...immediate concern in the first letter was for people's lives--the lives of those arrested. Our present concern is for our own lives, that is, for our freedom to speak out against violence arrayed against us, to speak without having mud thrown at us and facing threats of abandonment from those professing to be allies. (You say, after all, that our equality is "much-deserved...