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...many years, there has been a détente between ideological conservatives on campus and the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). HRC president Jeffrey Kwong’s tendentious little op-ed tears that asunder. I, for one, find it ironic that The Harvard Salient would be accused of forsaking a thoughtful, intellectually consistent conservatism, even when Kwong’s leadership of the HRC has cultivated a culture of insufficiently contemplated boosterism mirroring the pitfalls of the wider Republican Party...
Which leads to another emblematic practice of his HRC leadership: His insistence over the club’s e-mail list that any heated conversation be removed to a blog that Kwong, on one notable occasion, didn’t even remember the URL to! What better way to encapsulate the violence HRC has done to reason and logic but Kwong’s repeated insistence that Republicans please, pretty please, stop having an intelligent debate over the club’s open-list...
...when something that will have only a feel-good effect like divestment comes along, we have a moral obligation to point out that it will, in no way, stop the genocide and will only divert attention from remedies that can work. Kwong’s decision to sign the HRC up as a nominal sponsor to the divestment campaign only undermines HRC’s credibility and takes away from what could be a larger, more intelligent advocacy role. In a place like Harvard, which so needs a dissenting voice at times, HRC has joined the choir...
...redeemed, fashionable word “queer” to describe the gay rights movement. Many people, even gay people, find that movement gaudy and prone to extremism, and this trend is what The Salient has occasionally endeavored to ridicule on its back page. Is the president of the HRC really going to take issue with The Salient for making fun of BGLTSA’s “Gaypril” panel on bondage...
...donations for American troops. The Support Our Troops drive has worked this week to procure donations of money and goods, which will be used to assemble care packages for U.S. troops through the Adopt a Platoon program. The effort, coordinated by the Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), and the Harvard Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, was designed to raise awareness of the sacrifice of American soldiers and their continued presence abroad. The drive ends today. “We do acknowledge that there are people that are fighting—men and women just...