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...Conference to Harvard after its brief departure in 1994. According to Forum Director Heather Campion, some 35 of 70 Republicans and Democrats who received invites to this year's New Member ho-down have RSVP'd in the affirmative, though she declined to cite party breakdown. Campion and other K-School administrators will point out that Congress endorsed no official initiation program in 1994, but it was widely reported at the time that the new speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, instructed his newfound acolytes to attend a conference at the ultra-conservative Brookings Institution in Baltimore instead. The dozen...
...Committee chieftain who runs an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN) its spanking new conservative image. Forum director Campion comments, "I think what you're seeing is a very real conservative effort on the part of the K-School to present views from all across the political spectrum...
...think the conservative winds have quit pushing the K-School further rightward, think again. On Dec. 3, the concept of the panel discussion will gain new meaning. According to a press release from the Coalition on Urban Affairs (CUA), a euphemistically named right-wing advocacy group, a conference on "Free Speech, Sensitivity and True Tolerance" will be convened next Tuesday at the ARCO Forum focused on the critique of Peninsula printed in this space one month ago. Who is to be included on this K-School panel? CUA says it will have John Leo, a reactionary senior columnist...
...sure that the event "is something that works in the forum." I guess right-wing rhetoric works well in the forum. If Harvard Democrats or the Black Students Association wanted to do forum events, Campion notes that the IOP would host those as well. We'll see if the K-School ends up hosting the conservatives-only panel discussion, or if the leadership has second thoughts over Thanksgiving turkeys...
Daniel Chatman, a student at the Kennedy School of Government, said he thinks that many other K-School students will eat lunch at the new Dunkin' Donuts...