Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...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...
...problem's staring us in the face: we can be analytical instead of emotional...
...others, "normal," as Klitgaard preliminarily wrote. It therefore bears considerable responsibility also for humiliating Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, and working-class Americans. And no doubt the current Harvard Administration could make students who now feel racial, sexual, and class humiliation here feel somewhat better. But you ignore another obvious problem. Evidently what makes students feel most deeply humiliated here is the way students who feel superior to them treat them. Your refusal to confront "normal" student prejudices is a cheap forfeit of a major struggle...
While the second packet solution will allow the GSA to get its message across, it does not address the root of the problem, which is not information flow but blatant discrimination. Harvard will not solve its "gay problem" with the purchase of 6000 additional manila envelopes; instead it must clearly, without the shield of Robert's Rules of Order, indicate its support for the civil rights of gay students and then firmly support those rights at every opportunity. Administrators can begin this process by allowing the GSA to stuff its information in next February's registration packet...
...crisis plaguing the T is too deep a problem to be solved with a quick influx of state money. Heartless as it sounds, only painful therapy-like a short shutdown of the system, even with the myriad problems it will cause the city-may sufice to end this recurrent problem...