Mutual Respect a Necessity In Residential Houses

To the editors:

Profoundly saddened by the brutal murder of young Matthew Shepard in Wyoming last week, we wish with one unhesitating and single voice to recommit ourselves to the principles of tolerance and mutual respect in our separate communities and in the College as a whole. We consider it fundamental to a university and to our duties as House Masters to honor the dignity and life of every individual without exception--regardless of sexual orientation, religion, gender, class, race or ethnicity. ROBERT AND JANA KIELY,   Adams House   JAMES AND JANICE WARE,   Cabot House   WILLIAM AND BARBARA GRAHAM,   Currier House   EVERETT MENDELSOHN AND MARY ANDERSON,   Dudley House   KAREL AND HETTY LIEM,   Dunster House   STEVE MITCHELL AND KRISTINE FORSGARD,   Eliot House   DONALD AND CATHLEEN PFISTER,   Kirkland House   HOWARD GEORGI '67-'68 AND ANN GEORGI,   Leverett House   DIANA ECK AND DOROTHY AUSTIN,   Lowell House   SANDRA NADDAFF '75 AND LEIGH HAFREY '73,   Mather House   JAMES AND SUZANNE McCARTHY,   Pforzheimer House   MICHAEL SHINAGEL AND MARJORIE NORTH,   Quincy House   PAUL HANSON AND CYNTHIA ROSENBERGER,   Winthrop House   Oct. 16, 1998 The writers are the masters and co-masters of the Harvard residential houses.