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...only took two tries for Travis R. Kavulla ’06 to achieve his vision. As newly elected editor of The Salient, Kavulla wanted his magazine to get attention. The second issue of the conservative biweekly has done that—and maybe more. The Oct. 13 magazine won not just reaction on the editorial pages of The Crimson (standard fare for the controversial magazine) but also readership in University Hall, where the president and other members of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) sat down with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and S. Allen Counter...
...parody was part of Kavulla’s campaign to return The Salient to what he sees as its golden age: two years ago, when a Salient editor’s comments sparked a campus debate so ubiquitous the Undergraduate Council passed a bill in response. So in a way, the campaign was working: people were reading, people were talking, and people were getting angry. But Kavulla’s attempt to copy the style of his predecessor also resurrected some of the same issues that predecessor faced—namely, where to draw the line on provocative speech...
...parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie, would have to seek out her misplaced abaya, the full-length garment that her culture and her religion require her to wear while outdoors.The Salient parody imagines a great deal. And so, when our imagined Fulla speaks, the greater subservience shown by Muslim wives to their husbands manifests itself in the acquiescent statement, “Yes, Husband.” Or the distaste that numerous Muslim-dominated regimes have expressed for human rights finds...
...silly.” “And I want to push Israel into the sea.” This is the prevalent image of Muslim women in today’s Western society—an image that was prominently portrayed in last week’s Salient as an “advertisement” for the Fulla doll (the Middle East’s version of Barbie). After the Salient printed its ad, I was approached (as a Muslim woman) by many students with the same question: “Does this doll really exist...
...publication on campus approaches The Crimson’s readership, Golis continued, and although papers like the Indy, the Salient, and Perspective do stay on their grind, they will forever remain at a disadvantage because The Crimson’s daily influence is so persistent...