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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While most students enjoyed Columbus Day reveling in the unseasonably warm weather or catching up on homework, members of an alternative student-run newspaper spent the day highlighting the 15th century Italian explorer's shortcomings...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Newspaper Criticizes Columbus Celebration | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

Members of The Subterranean Review yesterday printed and distributed 40 posters which showed a portrait of Christopher Columbus and excerpts from his diary, proclaiming "Wanted for human crimes against humanity" and "Is Columbus Day a holiday for Native Americans...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Newspaper Criticizes Columbus Celebration | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

Members of the magazine, which is trying to publish again this year after a one-year hiatus, said yesterday that they launched the campaign against the explorer because they feel Columbus began a process of conquest which has adversely affected native populations for severalcenturies since. Columbus is popularly creditedwith the discovery in North America...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Newspaper Criticizes Columbus Celebration | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

Displeasure for the annual tribute to Columbuswas shared by several Native Americans at Harvard,who pointed to Columbus's notorious reputation asconquerer, slave trader and cruel dominator...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Newspaper Criticizes Columbus Celebration | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

...QUEST FOR SELF-EXPRESSION: PAINTING IN MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD 1965-1990, Columbus Museum of Art. What 43 Soviet artists have been up to since the post- Stalin "thaw." Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 1, 1990 | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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