Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they they want to affirm staff opinions. Each of these other editors does not, however, have either the right, time or interest to read over every single opinion aired by a Crimson columnist. Would the staff be willing to apply the same standards to itself as it does to Peninsula members? We don't think...
...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...
...Peninsula is an ideological oddity; a self-contained school of thought that believes that the ultimate truth of the universe is known only to those who think exactly as its members do. Its core beliefs seem to be comprised of a heavy dose of fundamentalist Christianity mixed with supply-side economics, and topped off by a paranoid hostility toward anything different. We gaze in collective wonderment as it recklessly attacks gays, women and anyone less conservative than itself...
...with the organization in his bi-monthly column by pointing out the most unctuous portions of its latest publication, and by naming those who appear on the masthead. 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...
...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...