Word: jacinda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stance on the issue, several other students became involved in a symbolic free speech debate. Cabot House resident Timothy P. McCormack '91-'92 hung a Confederate flag in his dorm room window as a sign of support for Kerrigan's right to hang the flag, while Cabot House resident Jacinda T. Townsend '92 counteracted by hanging a swastika from her dorm room window, in an attempt to stretch University policy to such a limit that it would eventually ban such offensive symbols...
...LATE FEBRUARY, as the Gulf War was winding down, Bridget Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate battle flag out her Kirkland House window. Cabot House resident Tim McCormack '91 followed suit with a Southern Cross of his own. An outraged Jacinda Townsend '92 responded by hanging a swastika with the words "Racism--No?" out her window...
...shot in their sleep by agents of our government when their speech becomes a little too "free." For at Harvard, too, free speech is a selectively given right, available without the threat of disciplinary action only to the mainstream majority, sizeable and "acceptable" minority groups and white supremacists. Jacinda T. Townsend...
...letter to the editors, Jacinda Town-send '92 writes: "While I may be sensitive [the reason she gives for taking down the swastika hanging in her window], there are many individuals who are not, and without a policy change we may not be able to "sensitize" the person who hangs the swastika next year, next month or tomorrow...
...show my support for the removal of the Confederate flag all clearly stated that they did not deny the student's right to hang the flag, but rather that they wanted to induce the student to remove it by making her fully aware of its negative connotations. As Jacinda suggests in her letter, it should be removed out of sensitivity to those students whom it offends...