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Kashani was also instrumental in getting student delegations from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel to participate in a mock Mid-East summit. "If you talk to people at the Model U.N. they respect his ability to get things done, even if he does it exceedingly" said Grossman. For example, Kashani's security-consciousness was notorious. One IRC member described how at the high school U.N.s "he would charge around like a maniac all night," busting parties and confiscating alcohol. Saied closed off Ian Smith's speech to the Model U.N. even to the press. Kashani sometimes offered the Conservative Club...
...that's glowing brightest?" The American pavilion, dedicated at the last moment to the seven astronauts killed in the Challenger disaster, deals exclusively with space. But most Americans, and most others as well, have already seen much of the material on TV. Even a full-scale interior mock-up of the yet-to-be-built space station has a tired back-to-the-future look: Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise put on a better show...
...make things clearer. If you were living in a Nazi concentration camp and I built a mock concentration camp in Harvard Yard so that your relatives could see it every day as they walked to economics class, would you feel better? Would your family feel better? What if I played folk songs about freedom and organized my friends to sleep in the camp with me and passed out brochures and showed pictures of you suffering? Would you feel supported or would you feel objectified and patronized; your family mocked and outraged...
...applying our voices to mindless chants and our bodies to melodramatic renovation of Harvard Yard, let's use our minds--or at least our common sense--to act through focused, non-offensive methods. If we want to show Black South Africans our sympathy, let's not objectify hem or mock their suffering, sensitive families in America. If we want to pressure the Harvard administration to divest, let's act directly, instead of play acting in fron of University Hall like over-eager children...
...only be what we are, let's minimize the damage. Let's get our mock campus, our mock shantytown, our mocking concern out of Harvard Yard. Let's be respectful. Let the grass grow. Arthur K. Park...