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David B. Lat '96 is well-loved by the members of AFARM...
Joshua L. Oppenheimer '96, a founder of the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism (AFARM)--a direct response to AALARM--remembers seeing Wasinger's not-so-Christian behavior in line in the Eliot House dining hall. When Wasinger's friend dropped a spoon, Wasinger kicked it to a dining services worker to pick up off the floor, Oppenheimer says, and the worker couldn't believe...
Therefore we immediately challenged these young firebrands to a public debate, sponsored by the IOP and HPU. Now, four months later, we still find AFARM to be wary of any communication outside the realm of Harvard's kiosks and bulletin boards...
...recent meeting with representatives of AFARM, we again offered our challenge for a structure debate, one which would be open to the Harvard community and allow us to voice our differences in a more coherent manner than the 36-point slogan. However, we were turned down again. The reason? According to AFARM, they seem to taken a kinder an gentler attitude towards campus politics. Objecting to the adversarial relationship one would assume, one representative decried the "drawing of lines" between us. Another observed that due to the upcoming ceremonies surrounding the annulment of marriage between Joshua Oppenheimer '96 and Catherine...
...AFARM intends to fulfill the goals stated in a letter to our presidential council by its president, Alice Shapley, and "renounce irrationality for the discourse of the academy, the discourse of rational and deliberative discussion," it might do well to begin with the long established tradition of debate. Otherwise, we can only assume that they intend for the campus at large to follow the advice Oppenheimer himself gave last December, that "AFARM itself maybe should be perceived as a silly reaction." We agree. Brandford P. Campbell '95 Member AALARM Presidential Council