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...weeks ago a swastika, drawn on a piece on looseleaf paper, was taped to the door of an Eliot House suite. Residents of the room interpreted the swastika as a message for Jose M. Padilla '97, a member of the ultra-conservative campus publication Peninsula...
...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 of the Nazis was seen as an appropriate and effective way of pointing out how oppressive and irrational his beliefs are. The only thing more amazing than how narrow-minded and intolerant some individuals are is how those who oppose them can inadvertently adopt their worst...
...side from the fact that this action was as useful to campus discourse as throwing kerosene on a fire, there is another twist here; Padilla says he has no ties to the last issue of Peninsula. Although he does admit to being a current member of the magazine, he has mentioned that he has been too busy to work on the publication recently, and therefore should not have been criticized in a signed editorial piece in The Crimson...
...addition, an article ran reporting that someone had placed a swastika on the door of a Peninsula staffer seemingly in response to Kaufman's editorial. This student, Jose M. Padilla '97, threatened a lawsuit against The Crimson, explaining that he had had no part in the article and should not have been held accountable for it. A final letter to the editor by Robin S. Goldstein '98 commended Kaufman for his attack on Peninsula...
...attempt to speak to me. Please assist me in clearing my name by contacting The Crimson's president, Todd F. Braunstein '97 of Eliot House, and asking him to print a letter of apology and to make a statement about Kaufman's inaccurate and irresponsible column. --Jose M. Padilla...