Word: peninsulas
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...eagerness to condemn a right-wing organization, the staff has forgotten one of the first rules of journalism: unsigned staff pieces represent the opinion of the publication; signed pieces represent only the view of the author. The article in Peninsula, offensive as it may be, was the work of only one person, and therefore only he should be held accountable for that article, as the author himself pointed out in a letter to The Crimson last week. To argue about the use of the word "we" is to blur a line which is inherently very clear: individuals are responsible...
...thing I pray we all learned from the recent Peninsula uproar is that no matter how frightening or wrongheaded we considered Christopher Griffith's article to be, we never doubted his right to write it. Let us fight this, not for Mr. Kirtley, for us, students with voices, students who will be heard. --Sozi T. Sozinho...
Joshua A. Kaufman's recent anti-Peninsula diatribe was both infantile and inaccurate. He conveniently omitted any reference to the initial paragraphs of the piece which make clear to the reader that the "Enemies List" was inspired by the Filegate scandal. Apparently, the humorless columnist believes that I actually want to line these folks up against a wall and send them to their eternal reward. If he's that dense, I wonder if I should even bother to rebut the rest of his hateful manifesto...
Josh just couldn't leave it at that. He had to urge his readers to terrorize members of Peninsula. What did he have in mind? Verbal abuse? Physical abuse? Letter bombs? I urge Mr. Kaufman to retract this statement. Unless, of course, he believes people should be persecuted for their beliefs. It takes a true coward to encourage terrorism by proxy...
...course, it was unfortunate that someone seemingly interpreted Kaufman's piece (unjustifiably in my opinion) as a pretext for placing a swastika on the door of a Peninsula staffer, but let's just be thankful that no one has gone out and shot those on Peninsula's hit list. Talk about double standards. I hope The Crimson stands by Kaufman. I'd like to see a staff editorial in his defense. But then again, maybe Peninsula's staff does not even merit any response...