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Even conservative campus magazine The Salient seems to more or less be willing to consider the traditionally-liberal pro-gay marriage stance. Earlier this year, the magazine took up the marriage issue “through the lens of divorce rates, not gay marriage, which is where any discussion of the traditional family’s contemporary problems should begin and end,” according to editor Travis R. Kavulla ’06, who is also a Crimson editor. In other words, arguably the most conservative Harvard publication chose to focus on problems with heterosexual marriage rather than...
True, Kavulla has people talking. But many of them are talking about him and his journalism—not about radical Islam. Salient editors spend a lot of their time debating how provocative to be, says Tiskus, who is also a Crimson editor. She and a few supporters believe that Kavulla should publish less controversial material, and they make their opinions heard. “I think it is a good idea to make the magazine into a broad spectrum of diverse thought,” she says. Using caution, she says, would avoid alienating readers...
Brushed aside by the Salient, Yasin decided to approach Dean Kidd and Counter. At their meeting last week, according to Yasin, the parties present quickly agreed free speech prohibited any punitive action against the Salient. But they also brainstormed two proposals to mitigate the effects of similar articles in the future. The first, a more specific goal, was to enlighten students about the Fulla doll—especially that the doll does not say what the Salient claims it says...
Presented with the possibility, Kavulla said he thought a permanent organization is not necessary. He has repeatedly expressed frustration with groups who attack his magazine. “Instead of taking out their rage on The Salient, campus Muslims would be wise to focus their attentions on those places from whence their faith came,” he wrote in the Crimson editorial, “those places where what is called ‘moderate Islam’ is today besieged...
...just like back at Harvard, where conservative student monthly The Salient frequently quipped about West’s radical methodology, Princeton has given the professor a fair share of its own detractors. The September 2005 cover of Princeton’s humor magazine The Princeton Tiger, for instance, features a vaguely offensive caricature of Cornel West playing beer pong and wearing a golden dollar sign pennant around his neck...