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...think of campus publications as police officers. Peninsula would be that stern police officer who exhorts you to moral behavior. Perspective would be the officer who, before heading off to the donut shop, kindly looks the other way as you stumble home drunk and underage. And the Harvard Salient--well, they would be the Keystone Cops. Our question is a simple one: can't those people do anything right...
This week, the Salient proved that they couldn't even lie to the press in a competent manner. On Monday, Salient President Corwyn D. Hopke '96 and former President Whitney D. Pidot '96 denied allegations that the Salient was in trouble. They did make some admissions. Yes, the Salient had instituted a new policy which calls for writers to sell ads if they want their articles to see the light of day. (If this policy does not bespeak desperation, we don't know what does...
...Pidot has spent some $1,000 of his own money on Salient expenses and has not yet been paid back. (Dartboard sources tell us Pidot forecloses on the Salient next week. The first edition of the new publication, tentatively titled "Whit Pidot's Salient," will appear shortly thereafter...
...other pieces of evidence, Hopke and Pidot continue to maintain that their publication is not in trouble. Please, gentlemen, give us some credit. If you think we're that gullible, you should try selling us parcels of Florida swamp land, or, better yet, some advertising space in the Salient...
...duplicitous nature of the denials by Pidot and his official spokesmodel cum puppet Hopke became wonderfully clear soon after the denials, when the Crimson discovered Salient e-mail that directly contradicted all assertions of stability. Unless you happen to be the nation of Mexico, the "serious financial emergency" written about in one message cannot be equated with "a normal financial situation" in another message...