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...College is now recognizing a distinction between extracurricular activities and a social life,” Kidd says. After watching the formation of groups like harvardparties.com and the UC’s Concert Commission, Kidd says she realized the demand for more social alternatives was salient. And perhaps more important, the upcoming move to Allston has provided a chance to think toward the future. A survey sent to all undergraduates asks detailed questions about social habits, underscoring the University’s recent interest in the subject...
...since this figure is merely an average of the grants for everything from “real Mariachi suits” to dirty magazines, let’s compare and contrast some salient examples. H Bomb’s editors asked the council for $2,000. And the council obliged, giving them the full sum. Also this month, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter applied for a $1,000 grant to buy a new washer/dryer set for their establishment. The Council’s grant to them? $400. The Coalition Against Sexual Violence was given $800 for its annual Take Back...
...full disclosure, I’m the publisher of that magazine—whose writers (whether social conservatives or libertarians) are certainly in the minority at Harvard, will always be more read, and scrutinized, than the liberal Perspective will. But this hardly means the council should provide the Salient with more money than Perspective...
...violence in one situation considered a country’s duty and in another situation considered a terrorist act?” Subrin asks. “What could be more salient than that question today? Is there a more important question...
...Kavulla, since he has worked hard to become—I trust he’ll take this as a compliment—our own local Rush Limbaugh, by means of his attacks on women’s studies, affirmative action, etc. He is the publisher of the Harvard Salient, which is subsidized by radical-right sponsors, but does he really want to be seen in such company...