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Article: Is Yale now colored mauve? (homosexuality at Yale University)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 9, 1987
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IS YALE NOW COLORED MAUVE?
ON THE ELITE CAMPUS today, lesbians and homosexuals are by no means victims. To be sure, they trade on "victim status' to gain leverage. Objectively considered, however, the lesbians and homosexuals are cultural aggressors.
The Wall Street Journal on August 4 carried an astonishing article about the situation at Yale by Julie V. Iovine, the wife of a Yale faculty member. I hope he has tenure. Just listen to her opening paragraph, which about says it all:
I didn't bother returning last summer for my tenth Yale reunion because I still live part of each year in New Haven. I even thought I knew what was going on until ...