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...Race is still a salient part of American society," she said...
...motivating anecdote behind Adair's article is one in which she is asked by a scholarship interviewer whether she has a boyfriend; she feels compelled to respond positively for fear of losing the scholarship. Citing an article I wrote in the Oct. 27 issue of The Salient, Adair writes, "Had my interviewer been Schaefer...I might not have gotten the scholarship...
...identifies the author of the other article mentioned no less than three times. Adair does not use a single quotation to support her accusations of bigotry. The one quotation she does use in a secondary argument appears in 25 point font in the middle of my article in The Salient. As an English concentrator, Adair should understand when I write that she fails to use the techniques of close reading when constructing her slanderous arguments. --Naomi Schaefer '98, Editor-in-Chief, The Harvard Salient...
This has enraged the "stop it all nows." Kevin A. Shapiro '99, in a Harvard Salient piece on Oct. 27, argues that political advocacy for change does not fall under the rubric of social action and therefore should not be done at PBHA. After all, goes his reasoning, PBHA is a service organization and should stay apolitical. Alex S. Herzlinger '00, son of the Business School professor whom PSLM has targeted, argued similarly that the new trend toward social action isn't part of the mission of PBHA...
...discrimination is real. Last year, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act--which would have made job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation illegal--did not pass in Congress. Reading The Salient last week reminded me of the sad truth of our political climate. As gay men and lesbians, we are still not tolerated in this world...