Hahvahd Homos - More fall-out from the Crimson expose of the anti-gay star chamber at 1920's Harvard, previously blogged here. The editor of the Harvard Salient, an undergraduate conservative journal, wrote a caustic letter to the Crimson decrying modern institutional immorality and suggesting that the tribunal's old-style repression of homosexuality was good policy. The author asseted that complaining about "expulsion of homosexual students only serves ... to promote acceptance of lifestyles better ignored and repressed by all of us—including the administration."

Gee, guess what? The letter prompted a veritable firestorm of pro-gay student outrage. (Mostly restricted to postering campaigns and "heated" e-mails in campus discussion groups.) I dare say there'd be a different response at Princeton. It's difficult to judge from the story how much of this is typical Harvard PC-ism, but it is rather interesting that the controversy resulted in the resignation of two staffers at the Salient -- roommates of the letter's author no less. They refused to comment on their action other than to say it was related to the letter. Even the Salient's managing editor shied from endorsing the letter's contents. Princeton's counterpart, the Tory, on the other hand, recently published "Sex Week Strikes Out: Deceit and decadence mark newest addition to LGBT calendar" by Evan Baehr '05. Whatever.

Now, what's up with that Harvard BGLTSA Publicity Chair? Can Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme ’04 really be his name?