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However, being a minority also implies a sort of power. In a country in which identity politics have quickly become salient (much to the dismay of many conservatives), minorities have learned to organize to demand respect and acknowledgement. Being a minority has meant learning to become visible after being invisible for so many years, something that conservatives in this country and at this institution have never had to contend with...
...true that political conservatives are outnumbered here, both among the student body and on the Faculty. Harvard used to be nicknamed the "Kremlin on the Charles." The Harvard Salient, a conservative biweekly, polled professors a few years ago and found only a handful who would admit to being registered Republicans. It surprised no one when Bill Clinton thrashed Bob Dole in a 1996 campus poll conducted by The Crimson...
...translates into a prejudice against conservatives--as events like a "coming out" dinner and articles like Tessler's do--is absurd. The last two presidents of the Undergraduate Council have been Republicans. As far as I know, conservatives are not shunned socially. No one is committing hate crimes against Salient staffers. In fact, the vast majority of people at Harvard couldn't care less about the political outlook of their classmates...
...should have chosen a person who is a law professor at [the University of Pennsylvania], otherwise relatively undistinguished, who was not even allowed a place by Clinton, and is only known for her radical views," says Michael P. Cole '94, a staff member at the moderate conservative publication The Salient...
...Salient staff member Torben H. Botts '94 says the choice of Guinier's marks no move to the left in a campus already as liberal as possible...