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...Aron said that he and several of his Adams House friends founded the periodical because they felt that other campus publications, such as the liberal monthly Perspective, were not receptive enough to radical ideas...
...addition, Aron said, they wanted to challenge the popular assumption that the appearance of campus right-wing publications like Harvard's Peninsula indicates that conservativism is back in style...
...Aron added that they wanted to disprove characterizations of college liberalism as trendy and superficial, and particularly to escape the concept of "P.C." liberalism. "We wanted to get to ideas that are beyond 'politically correct,'" he said...
Although some of the publication's critics have labelled its viewpoints as extreme, Aron shies away from using that word to describe his new journal. "'Extremist' implies that you accept the current spectrum of political thought," Aron said. "'Radical' [implies] that you are challenging the fundamental base of a lot of assumptions...
Those who would like a Little Friend of their own will soon be able to pick one up, said Aron, who plans to distribute copies to other House dining halls