Word: peninsulas
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Step Two: Choose a medium of communication. You have three publications to choose from: Perspective, Harvard-Radcliffe's liberal monthly; Peninsula, Harvard-Radcliffe's conservative occasionally; or The Salient, Harvard-Radcliffe's conservative incoherently. Because these journals periodically attempt to saturate campus opinion by door-dropping to every dorm room, they are a better choice for the aspiring editorialist than the opinion pages of a certain student-run daily newspaper...
Your attitude should extend beyond the sphere of your writing into your personal life. The paragon of Harvard opinion-makers, Rob Wasinger '94, was known by every student and administrator in his days at Peninsula. Wasinger led a one-man crusade against the Liberal Menace. Like him, you should remember that it's more important to be remembered than to be believed...
Brian E. Malone '96, a member of the Peninsula Council, puts it more bluntly: "That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard." He offers an alternative view that reflects the emphasis on tradition that typifies conservative groups like Peninsula. "I'd interpret addition of the word 'distinction' to mean that Harvard is restoring emphasis to its academic tradition," he says. "In that way it's an improvement over diversity alone...
...much of a difference really," says G. Brent McGuire, senior Peninsula council member. "I still don't subscribe to the view that diversity by itself is a good thing. So I guess in that sense it's an improvement...
Conventional wisdom blames either Moscow or Washington for turning Korea into the first hot conflict of the cold war. Kim Il Sung, however, had reason to want such a war. He had always preached that war was the only way to unify the peninsula and drive out the U.S.-backed regime of Syngman Rhee in Seoul. Furthermore, it would bolster his stature against other Korean communists who were urging different ways to unite the country...