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...offended by Charles Kurzman's editorial "Pointing the Big Finger" (Crimson, April 7). Kurzman resorts to hackneyed stereotypes and worn half-truths in order to paint an unfavorable picture of athletes at this University. In launching his diatribe, he merely succeeds in demonstrating that he is not in the least familiar with Harvard athletics, its athletes or the process by which they are recruited. A look at Kurzman's editorial will illuminate its inherent deficiencies as a piece of responsible writing...
Many farmers and animal-rights activists, however, say the branding is unnecessarily cruel. Protesters marched last week in front of the USDA offices in Washington, symbolically branding one another on their right cheeks with sponges that had been dipped in paint. Some demonstrators suggested that cows could be identified with an ear tag, a tattoo or even a strategically placed microchip. Late in the week a federal district court judge in Rochester, responding to a complaint from the local Humane Society against Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng, issued a temporary restraining order to halt the branding and directed the USDA...
...means. His sources are largely those of Pop art: the quickly seen, iconic, coercive imagery of mass media, which he then modifies and softens with high-art references. His main subject is the human face, close up and cropped by the frame, a pearly or tanned mask of flat paint with schematic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips: it is the face of advertising, the size of an image on a '50s highway billboard shifted into the context of domesticity. Much of the time the face belongs to his wife Ada, whose liquid brown, slightly melancholy eyes...
...confused nature of the argument, which can be summarized as "well, the protestors were wrong to try to keep these murderers from speaking, I guess." The matter, contrary to Mr. Katz's formulations, is really quite simple: the rowdies in Boylston Auditorium who threw glass and red paint at the speakers violated the central tenet of academic discourse, the free expression of all sides of an argument. On a matter as emotional and divisive as U.S. policy in Centra America there is simply no room for such attempts to squelch opposing viewpoints...
Contrary to whatever Mr. Katz might try, there can be no hedging on the simple fact that it was wrong for those protestors to throw their bottles and red paint at men who only wanted to participate in what has been a highly controversial debate over a very volatile area of the world. Mr. Katz's unwillingness to flatly declare that the actions of the protestors were wrong was unfortunate, but he at least could see his way clear to voice some denunciation, while Mr. Crystal's refusal to accept even this is the very essence...