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...critique of Peninsula printed in this space one month ago. Who is to be included on this K-School panel? CUA says it will have John Leo, a reactionary senior columnist for U.S. News and World Report; Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53; Jose Padilla '97, an acknowledged member of Peninsula; and Jay Dickerson '98, the president of the Harvard Republican Club, which Campion says is sponsoring the event. Sound like a balanced panel...
...read with dismay on the Internet your staff editorial of Oct. 29, 1996 ("Peninsula's Rant: Staff Culpable, Swastika Harmful") concerning Jose Padilla and the Peninsula. Given the condescension and closemindedness with which you, the staff of a newspaper at one of America's finest colleges, insult and dismiss the views of the Peninsula, it should come as no surprise that someone a little less responsible than you chose to tack a swastika on Padilla's door...
Indeed, that you allowed the column attacking Padilla to run at all without considering the possible defamation involved demonstrates not only that you have difficulty comprehending and tolerating opinions dissimilar from yours, but that you also have scant understanding of the maturity and care required to run a newspaper...
That alone is enough to encourage and justify the existence of the Peninsula, because one cannot envision someone with Padilla's beliefs wanting to join you at The Crimson. If your staff editorial is any sign of how diverse in thought you are and how responsibly you operate your newspaper, just remember that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. --Jeffrey Burk Publisher, Georgetown Independent; Managing Editor, Georgetown Law Weekly
...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. In order for Padilla to legitimately distance himself from Peninsula's last issue, he needs to have paid attention to what the magazine was publishing, and expressed his dissatisfaction before the magazine was distributed. In fact, this is exactly what Steven J. Mitby '99 did. A member of Peninsula's governing board, Mitby resigned because...