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Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--massacred Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom Tree. With an axe. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened...
...Community" (which AALARM claims to vigorously defend) is sensitivity to other members within the community. AALARM owes an apology not just to Hillel, not just to BGLSA, not just to the students these groups represent, but to the entire Harvard community. Its deceitful and bigoted actions are an affront to us all. Ron Fein '94 Harvard/Radcliffe Democrats
...straight off that the hanging of a Confederate flag from the window of a Harvard College house--or anywhere else at Harvard--is a vicious affront to Black people here and at large...
...pointed out in the most recent issue of The Salient, 12.5 percent of the U.S. dead in Vietnam were Black (while 86.3 percent were white) during a time when 13.5 percent of the military age population was Black. Katz's statement, in addition to being false, is a blatant affront to the whites who risked their lives in Vietnam...
Such selective enforcement is an obvious affront to any notions of freedom of expression. But even if they were fairly enforced, the rules prohibiting postering by unauthorized groups would be unacceptable. As the AALARM founders pointed out, student organizations cannot gain the administration's approval unless they have at least 10 members and two faculty advisors--including one tenured professor. What about a single person's ideas? Are they not entitled to an outlet? And what about groups so outlandish that faculty members refuse to associate with them? Should they, too, be silenced...