Word: kirkland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years ago, Brigitte M. Kerrigan '91 hunga Confederate flag out of her Kirkland House room.The flag sparked campus debate as well as strongcriticism from the BSA, which asserted that theflag represented slavery...
...only a first-year at Harvard, but I felt like a seasoned reporter, filing my notes in the rush of producing a war extra. Later that night, as I delivered copies of the extra to the doorstep of Kirkland House rooms, knocking on every door as I went by, one awakened resident opened his door and yelled after me, "We fucking know already...
Still, that Kirkland House resident's pithy critique of The Crimson's war extra made me think at the time about the role of a newspaper in a community. The beginning of a war seemed a good moment to wonder how a newspaper should serve its readers and to wonder if The Crimson was performing that service well...
Take, for example, the Kirkland House resident who I woke up as I delivered war extras three years ago this month. To that philosopher, who made me think then about some of these issues, I have just three parting words: I was read...
...Because it is a happy season, a season for exchanging gifts, (even if that gift happens to be you having whipped cream licked off your face by a whip-wielding, handcuff-happy stranger dressed in black leather--an example of one from Kirkland House Secret Santa) a season that, political correctness aside, will, to the average foreign student, always be the "Christmas Season...