Word: kieval
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...Shira D. Kieval ’04—who planned to study Hebrew at Haifa University in northern Israel this summer through a program not sponsored by Harvard—said she would not let the new policy affect her decision...
Even Shira Kieval wrote that about the Christmas tree in Cabot dining hall that Harvard “might as well have put up a tree in her room.” But that would clearly be far more intrusive! Why does the concept of degrees go out the window in discussions like this...
...Kieval and Schechter seem to ask: If we allow Christmas trees in dining halls, where do we draw the line? Clearly, we draw it somewhere before we get to swastikas and trees in people’s rooms...
...Christians, Muslims, and atheists in Leverett have to eat in the shadow of, and pay for, a “kosher dining station,” which is unquestionably an expression of religious observance. Can I assume that Shira Kieval, who feels so strongly that no student should “be forced to choose between eating and being in the same room with a religious object,” supports the removal of these stations...
...school should be forced to take down anything which is deeply offensive to what Shira D. Kieval ’04 points out, in a recent Crimson article, is a very small minority, then it should expand this policy to things besides Christmas trees. The American flags widely displayed should be taken down, lest they offend our foreign students (a large minority) or any Jehovah’s Witnesses among us (before you argue that the flag is supported by our government, let me remind you that Christmas is, too). The rainbow flags which have occasionally appeared...