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Another distressing aspect of undergraduate life at Harvard concerns racial and cultural sensitivities and sensibilities. While I was the associate editorial chair of this newspaper, students of various races who shared a politically correct mindset would congratulate me on being the only black editor on the masthead and tell me that they empathized with my "struggle...
This is why we are not surprised that one of our own decided to express his frustration with the organization in his bi-monthly column by pointing out the most unctuous portions of its latest publication, and by naming those who appear on the masthead. What does surprise us is the response he apparently elicited. Someone within our community decided that the best way to let Peninsula know that he or she disapproves of its inflammatory and overblown rhetoric was to tape a swastika to the door of one of its members. Apparently, linking Padilla to the genocidal reign...
...statement at the bottom of the Peninsula's masthead claims that "All signed pieces express the views of the author." The article in question, however, was made to sound like a staff editorial: it employed a "we" personification and--in writing of "Peninsula's Official Enemies List" [italics added]--spoke for the magazine as a whole. Moreover, the political and philosophical agenda of Peninsula is so consistent and extreme that those who sign on and allow their names to appear on the masthead have to assume that they will be linked in spirit with all that appears within the magazine...
This brings us to an interesting aside; a significant number of those who appear on the masthead of the Peninsula have never cast their lot with the organization and, indeed, repudiate all ties to it. Both Steven F. Sakis '98 and Christine Folch '98 have no desire whatsoever to be associated with the magazine. According to Folch, her involvement was limited to attending two meetings in the fall of her first year, and Sakis says he never signed up or attended a meeting at all. Both students requested in the past that their names be removed; Sakis actually threatened...
...author of that "vile" enemies list, I regret that I did not include Mr. Kaufman by name. The article was entirely my creation and yes, Joshua, I am proud of it. By listing the entire masthead of the publication, however, Mr. Kaufman committed a libelous offense. The vast majority of those people he named had absolutely no control over the editorial content of the previous issue. He even included the wrong Christopher Brown. Maybe Josh had better do some research next time...