Word: kavulla
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...letter sparked exactly the kind of discourse Kavulla fondly looks back on today. A UC “Tolerance Bill” allocating UC money to student groups that promote tolerance was then passed only after heated debate, during which students described their personal experiences with homophobia, according to a Crimson article published at the time...
...Kavulla and his team had placed a parody ad for the Fulla doll, a Barbie alternative popular throughout the Islamic world for its “Muslim Values,” on the back page, taking some liberties with the “Muslim Values” claim. “And She Really Talks!” the fake ad boasts, listing some (also fake) programmed phrases: “Yes, Husband,” “Human Rights? That’s silly,” and “Let’s push Israel into...
...Kavulla, who is also a Crimson editor and a former Crimson editorial executive, answered Ismail’s concerns on the Crimson’s Editorial page the next day. The back page, he explained in an editorial, was a parody designed to critique the Fulla doll’s proud endorsement of Muslim values. “The Salient’s back page is a parody premised on the seemingly absurd yet real attempt to turn licentious, Western Barbie into an equivalent befitting the Arab world, where a number of states are dominated by radical Islamic values...
...interview, Kavulla was less diplomatic. “I think the stereotypes are already out there. Their being mentioned in a campus publication certainly is not going to further them,” he says. “We’re just creating a discussion...
...that Kavulla has taken the reins, he is trying to mold The Salient into what it was during Pappin’s days, as he describes it: an engine for campus discourse. “You have to admire Pappin because the Salient was widely read then,” Kavulla says. But his first attempt to copy Pappin has led to the same threat Weaver diagnosed: self-marginalization...