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NATION, Page 39American NotesHARVARDGay Power 1, ROTC 0
When the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council decided last
month to allow the Reserve Officers Training Corps back on campus
for the first time since its tumultuous ouster in 1969, the
university's Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association
protested, arguing that the military discriminates against
homosexuals. A week later, the council reversed itself.
That triumph two weeks ago was but one among several signs that
gay power is burgeoning at Harvard. For the first time, an
assistant dean, Jean Viggiani, has been delegated to deal with gay
issues on campus. A tutor specializing in gay concerns has been
assigned to each of Harvard's undergraduate houses. About 1,000
pink triangles offered to sympathizers for the Gay Awareness
celebration were gone in a record three days.
Lesbian couples now appear at Radcliffe's formal Senior Soiree,
and gays routinely dance together at Harvard events. That can
sometimes lead to friction. In February a ruckus broke out when a
gay student asked the younger brother of a straight student to
dance. Gay students soon after staged a "kiss-in" to protest
alleged harassment. Says Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian co-chair Kelly
Dermody: "This year was wild."