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In point of fact, the only opposition that The Crimson ever voiced about a BSA event came in a single staff editorial about BSA's invitation to Leonard Jeffries to speak at Sandes Theatre. The Harvard Foundation was not mentioned, and we actually praised the BSA "for inviting a diverse...
We have objected to none of the BSA's programs--except its co-sponsorship of the Jeffries speech. And our staff editorial on Jeffries was voted on by all Crimson editors at the meeting, not just the one "active in Hillel."
Still, Counter and Reid quote people who seem to think that "The Crimson's racial agenda" is one that is decidedly pro-Jewish one and anti-Black. The Jeffries incident seems to be exhibit number one.
Levin's racist teachings (which are the same as those of David Duke) have been defended as free speech. Some of the panelists and students asked "why The Crimson and other Jeffries detractors and given so little attention to or shown interest in Levin's demagogy." And "could the Crimson...
It saddens us that our office receives more racial unfairness complaints about the Crimson group than any other aspect of Harvard. It did not go unnoticed by the University administration, faculty and students that during a recent speech in sanders Theatre by controversial CUNY professor Leonard Jeffries, the loudest and...