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...feeling that simple group identifications aren't particularly constructive," Libenson says...
Nelson and Daniel J. Libenson '92, chair of Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel, wrote a joint letter to The Crimson condemning the flags. The BSA, led by Nelson, and other groups conducted a series of eat-ins in Kirkland an Cabot Houses in an effort to explain to other students why the flags were painful and hateful to Blacks and Jews. At the same time Nelson led the eat-ins, she met with administrators and tried to persuade them to use the University's racial harassment guidelines to force the students to remove the Confederate flags...
Daniel J. Libenson '92, a former chair ofHillel, also mentions the problems that Harvard'sProtestant roots can cause. He complains ofconflicts between scheduled events and variousJewish holidays...
...Libenson believes that Harvard needs to focuson including all religions, rather than trying tobe wholly secular while maintaining suchinstitutions as Memorial Church. "[It's bad] ifHarvard institutionalizes one religion or religionin general," he says...
Some view this merely as a formal tie toHarvard's past, while others, such as Libenson,regard such symbolism as dangerous...