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...editors: If the “wonks of the academic left” choose to answer Travis Kavulla??s call for a seminar on the Danish cartoons (“Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla??s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these...
...parody was part of Kavulla??s campaign to return The Salient to what he sees as its golden age: two years ago, when a Salient editor’s comments sparked a campus debate so ubiquitous the Undergraduate Council passed a bill in response. So in a way, the campaign was working: people were reading, people were talking, and people were getting angry. But Kavulla??s attempt to copy the style of his predecessor also resurrected some of the same issues that predecessor faced—namely, where to draw the line on provocative speech...
...fall into the trap of the radcons and the ultra-conservatives who group everyone on “the left” together and wholly dismiss them. From the content of Palmer’s class and the nature of Palmer’s response to Kavulla??s challenge, it seems he might...
...more fundamental is Kavulla??s misunderstanding of the role of campus disciplinary procedures. Universities create their own standards of conduct based not solely on criminal law, but also on the mission and vision it seeks to uphold. There are many actions that would not be considered illegal in the criminal justice system, or would not result in incarceration but still undermine the community values that Harvard has established. These cases warrant disciplinary action as a matter of both fairness and safety. As A Student’s Guide to the Administrative Board states, “The procedures...
...intersections of social hierarchies, feminist methodology, etc. That Kavulla failed to represent any of this in his simplified caricature of women’s studies is a disservice to members of the community who have not yet taken a course in women’s studies and who take Kavulla??s representation to have merit...