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...wish this conflict could have been solved in a less unpleasant way for all the people involved, but we hope that with this correction of the facts, it will end peacefully. Independently of the above statement, the director and the producer wish to assert that sexual harassment never took place, and that such an accusation is unjustified, irresponsible, unacceptable, and of questionable motivation. Sam Ferrell '95, Nicholas Gordon '95, Raiko Mancini '92, Duane Moles '95, Philip Munger '93, Grigore Pop Eleches '95, Anne Richards '95, Konstantions Tsakonas '93, Karen Todd '95, Julian von Loesch '93, Terry Yang...
Counter and Reid argue that Black-Jewish relations are the most serious race relations problem on our campus. They assert that Jewish students protest speakers they find "distasteful" and "allegedly 'anti-Jewish.'" In the first place, Hillel does not protest speakers it finds "distasteful," but rather those who are blatantly racist and anti-Semitic...
Counter did not, as Libenson says, use it to demonstrate some sort of plot, or to "assert that Harvard Jews have an agenda of publicly criticizing the Foundation's work," or to "publicly put down" anyone (he didn't use Libenson's name), or even to say that Libenson speaks for the Jewish community...
...European Community needs Paris' traditional leadership more than ever. The French are worried that their country is failing to find a new role in the post-cold war world and that within Europe it is being overshadowed by the rise of a unified and vibrant Germany. Should they assert themselves vigorously and strive to lead the new Europe or retreat into a kind of Gallic stockade and preoccupy themselves with domestic concerns? The regional elections pointed to a distressing trend toward the second option...
Most of us grapple with questions about what constitutes racism and sexism and how to combine the empowerment of belonging to a group of people who share our identity or experiences with the need for all members of society to live together in mutual respect. I assert no positions on these questions...