Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which the Harvard Foundation bestowed grants to student organizations this year. The race relations office proffered funding to the rag, a feminist magazine and to HQ, a gay-issues magazine. But the office, whose mandate is to award grants that promote interracial understanding last year denied funding to Peninsula, an often-inflammatory right-wing publication whose editors were planning an issue devoted to race relations. Again, the conflict between diversity and open expression became a matter of campus debate...
...understand that peninsula often endorses views that campus groups justifiably find offensive. We recognize that Peninsula's race relation issue was likely to embody an agenda very different from the Foundation's. But while we did not expect--or want--the Foundation to endorse Peninsula's views, we were concerned that the race relations office lacked a clear sense of its won mandate and wound up giving money only to one side of the political fence. We cannot ignore the Peninsulas in our midst. We have to listen to them. If we disagree and usually, we do--we should respond...
Other eruptions have occurred. In November 1991, the staff of the conservative journal Peninsula angered gays and their supporters with a 56-page indictment of homosexuality. Last March, Asian students protested when Junior Parents Weekend organizers initially left Asian-American speakers off three race-relations panels...
Kennedy gives Inside Edge too much credit. Peninsula is invidious because it is written intellectually. Its arguments, however disturbing, are stated logically and convincingly; its unreasonable agenda is couched in reasonable terms. Inside Edge editors claim simply to write a magazine that guys would like to read. Even the most sexist Inside Edge copy is far too vapid to pass for intelligent discourse...
Stated another way, Peninsula writers are smart, while Inside Edge writers are stupid. Yet that's not quite right; the Harvard juniors behind Inside Edge aren't truly insipid. They're just acting stupid--because that's the way they think they're supposed...