In response to “Homosexuality at Rhodes”
http://outtaurspace.blogspot.com/2008/10/homosexuality-at-rhodes.html

I hardly agree with your statement that straight people are forgotten on Rhodes campus. Societies like OUTRhodes aim to promote acceptance for homosexuality, not to ostracize straight people.

While university is a place to grow and develop your character, I do not think that the new found freedom coupled with how liberal Grahamstown youth tend to be would “corrupt poor first years.” As a first year you may be impressionable but you make it out to be like we are putty, or princesses to borrow terminology from Propp, in the overzealous hands of senior students.
Sexuality is a personal choice and personally I have never fell “victim” to this so-called fashionable trend. Rhodes and its societies allow you to be yourself and find a niche that you often couldn’t at school. Gay people are simply embracing the homosexual community which they may never have found themselves in before, and so come out the closet if they are not already openly gay.

Lastly, as a member of SHARC I can vouch for how actively it promotes HIV/Aids testing and awareness. It is the largest society on campus and from t-shirts to marches to workshops, its presence is undeniable and year-round.

Posted by Megs