Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peninsula engaged in a postering campaign in order to attract new members. One of the four varieties of posters compared Peninsula's beliefs to the dominant liberal ideology on campus. Apparently, a band of left-wing terrorists thought it would be amusing to create over two-dozen fraudulent posters that would lead the reader to believe Peninsula was a home for racists and bigots. The goal was to libel the magazine and ruin the good names of those associated with it; scaring off potential recruits was merely an added side benefit. The vandals, though, were too scared and embarrassed...
...Peninsula are aware that our views might be unpopular with some members of the Harvard community. Any advocate of free speech, though, should champion the right of an officially-sanctioned group to advertise its existence to the student body. Not once has Peninsula or any other conservative organization stooped to a level such as this. In the space of a few months, though, our enemies have put a swastika on the door of one of our members, Jose Padilla '97, and put an incredibly intolerant note which bordered on a death threat outside the door of one of our former...
...behalf of the Council of Peninsula and all those who are associated with the publication, I would like to call on President Neil Rudenstine and Dean Archie C. Epps III to set aside whatever biases they might have against Peninsula and speak out in defense of our right to free speech. Nothing was done when Padilla was defamed. Nothing was done when gay activists verbally assaulted Ralph Reed. Are conservatives not entitled to equal protection under University rules...
...religious student group? What if someone had slanderously and maliciously forged the posters of the BSA, BGLTSA, Harvard Radcliffe Christian Fellowship or even Room 13? Would the Administration have been silent? Would The Crimson have labeled the forgery a "parody" in its headline, as it did with the Peninsula poster forgery? Would the Crimson article have focused on the victim's position--with which the letter writer disagreed--as it did concerning Steven Mitby and his opinion on anti-discrimination protection of transgendered students? Would the President of the Undergraduate Council brush off the swastikas as a "distraction" which diverted...
Suleiman acted unethically on this occasion by not only misrepresenting my words and views, but also by providing misleading information to Crimson readers as to my position on Peninsula's staff. --Jay Dickerson '98 Guardian, Peninsula...