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...Harvard Salient is organizing a demonstration which will feature human rights activist Harry...
...Salient speech, by contrast, will focus on human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government...
According to WHRB staff member Henry G. Wei '98, who is also a Crimson editor, WHRB is "trying to be very concise and to deliver just the salient points of each story...
...also fear the growing tendency to "ghettoize" ethnic studies, relegating it to obscurity. This position fails to recognize that ethnic studies are American studies and ethnic literature, American literature. By perusing the Courses of Instruction, one can see one salient example of the treatment of ethnic studies as nobody's child: the current structure of ethnic studies at Harvard has no structure. A list of sundry courses taken from the Core and from various departments is somehow supposed to make up for the magnetization of the study of race and ethnicity as it relates to modern America...
...example, the Salient has such a fetish for printing frequent and bitter attacks on affirmative action and feminism that one is forced to consider two equally frightening and bizarre alternatives: either the magazine is actually a freakish parody of contemporary conservative thought, or its whiny writers really fancy themselves to be the anointed defenders of Western civilization from the post-modern and multicultural hordes. Undergraduate conservatives are constantly publishing articles that are so offensive that it is appropriate to occasionally flip them the written equivalent of a middle finger...