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...some poster campaigns will offend students with different views. However, although we value freedom of expression, even when that expression offends others, there must be limits: activists have a responsibility to express their opinions without creating a hostile or pernicious environment for other students. Unfortunately, Harvard Right to Life (HRL) has acted irresponsibly by running a poster campaign that harms the mental health of rape victims...
Activism is not about controversy for its own sake. HRL and other activist-minded organizations strive to create dialogue about their respective chosen causes because of the dearth of discussion on such topics at Harvard. Whether the topic is abortion or the daily life of a Harvard janitor, the average Harvard student is not sufficiently challenged to question the assumptions that he or she takes for granted...
...HRL knows that we are unlikely to change Harvard students’ minds about such a polarizing issue with one simple poster. Nonetheless, the flurry of campus discussions and debates following each new poster or protest proves just how successful such tactics can be in disseminating a group’s message. I often joke that I measure HRL’s success in terms of how many of and how quickly our posters have been torn down. If I see our posters still hanging, then most likely they have not made the impact we had hoped for. That being...
...first to acknowledge that most HRL members are more on the ideological fringe of the Harvard student body than their pro-choice counterparts—we do not have the membership numbers of the Harvard College Democrats or the Harvard Republican Club. Groups like the Socialist Alternative, the May Day Coalition, the Student Labor Action Movement, and other projects spearheaded by the campus left are in a similar position to HRL with respect to membership size...
...fact that the smallest groups make the most noise suggests that all activism at Harvard requires is a little bit of money and a lot of elbow grease. HRL, for example, has students who are passionate enough about the culture of life to spend countless hours postering in the blistering cold at 7:15 a.m. every Monday and Thursday. They face chastisement if seen by friends with posters in hand, and are often the sole voices willing to defend the pro-life cause on House e-mail lists...