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Harvard Lampoon alumni, staff members and honorary celebrity members gathered last week to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...college newspapers around the country, listing 10 reasons why reparations are "a bad idea for blacks." Predictably, a rumpus ensued on campuses from Duke to Wisconsin. At Brown University in Rhode Island--whose founders include a prominent slave trader--students offended by the Brown Daily Herald's decision to publish the ad seized all 4,000 copies of the paper. At the University of California, Berkeley, a forum on reparations degenerated into a shouting match after Horowitz delivered a characteristically pugnacious speech. But once they have finished railing at Horowitz, reparations supporters ought to applaud him. The fuss he started...
...that very same article, however, you ran a photograph of the full text of the ad as an illustration to the story. In so doing, you made clear that you were not afraid to publish his views and were sincere in objecting only to the form of its presentation. After all, in the end, you published his entire text, and did so for free...
Congratulations for a principled stand, but also for your brilliant strategy in upholding the dignity and professionalism of The Crimson. Horowitz has embarassed a number of campus papers that were afraid to publish his controversial views or that capitulated to mob rule by apologizing for having run the ad. The Crimson should be proud of its decision...
...believe that The Crimson has a responsibility to its readership--and to the outside world that considers its content representative of the Harvard community--to exercise judgment and respect in choosing its material. I do not think The Crimson truly feels that its decision to publish "The Invasion" shows either of these qualities...