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...friend just sent me a copy of your March 7 feature article "Student Journal Ceases to Shock: The Peninsula No Longer Influences," for which I was interviewed by the article's author. Please permit me to correct some of the factual claims and challenge the central thesis of the article...
...should have discovered that the inaugural issue of Peninsula caused a ruckus on campus second only to our legendary double- issue on homosexuality. Articles, editorials and letters to the editor about the magazine dominated the pages of The Crimson for 10 of the next 11 days...
Like it or not, Peninsula has been a campus force since its inception...
...Which bring me to subtitle of the article, that peninsula no longer influences. The author uses for the standard of "influence" our homosexuality issue, which among other things: induced several dining hall eat-ins, an anti Peninsula rally attended by 250 students, two deans and the minister of Memorial Church; months worth of aftershocks in The Crimson and Independent: immediate public responses from president Rudenstine and Dean Clark: a forum /debate at the Kennedy School attended by nearly 500; feature articles in The New York Times. The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard magazine and many...
...Beavis mentality is incompatible with the purpose of the opinion page, which is to persuade, not to ridicule. Even when reading Peninsula, you shouldn't be looking for the childish and asinine. Instead, you should be reading for reasonable arguments that make you think about substantive issues...