Word: kerrigans
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Many Harvard students graduating today have found clashes involving free speech and diversity to be among the most intense and hurtful experiences they have had at college. From Bridget L. Kerrigan's Confederate flag to Leonard Jeffries, from Ice T to Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 and Colin L. Powell, the Class of 1993 has had to grapple with diversity and freedom of expression. Some wish such disagreements never occurred: that Mansfield never opened his mouth, that Ice T never brought his "cop-killer" campaign to Harvard Law School and that the campus was a sea of peace and tranquility...
...Southern pride" clashed with condemnation of the Civil War-era South's treatment of Blacks when two springs ago Bridget A. Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate flag in her window. The protests that ensued made national news, and in a book that ensued made national news, and in a book that appeared last summer syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff painted Kerrigan as a martyr of political correctness...
...tends toward moderation, eschews confrontation. Bovell disapproves of Jacinda Townsend '91-'92, who responded to Kerrigan's flag by hanging a swastika in a window as a share-the-discomfort gesture. "The very attention that Jacinda paid [Kerrigan] made the controversy worse," Bovell declares...
...even if Yisei, HQ, the rag and Point of Reference cease publication and fewer identity-politics stories make the front page of The Crimson, most of Harvard, like much of the Class of '93, won't perceive much difference at all.Crimson File PhotoBridget A. Kerrigan '91 drew national attention and condemnation on campus when she hung a Confederate flag in her window two springs...
...spring of 1991, Bridget I. Kerrigan '91 grabbed national headlines--and the ire of many students--when she hung a confederate flag from her Kirkland House window. National columnists focused on Kerrigan's assertion of free expression, and used her example to expound against the tyranny of political correctness...