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...campus life. We are pleased to see vigorous debate and excited commentary at Harvard so that this bastion of intellectuals does not become petrified while studying in Widener's stacks. It is also pleasing to note the Alliance's editorial independence from the student publications, specifically The Harvard Salient and Peninsula. The Crimson always welcomes another voice on campus. That said, we would like to evaluate the "She's a Child--Not a Choice" brochure on its primary claim that abortion is morally wrong and, in the process, to restate our position in favor of a woman's right...
Foster says she quit the Salient after her first year in part because the staff, comprised mostly of white males, often took "ultra-conservative" stances on social issues, including race relations...
...Salient wasn't very open to new ideas and maybe my style of conservatism," says Foster. "The attitude is too stuffy...
Sammy C. Lai '97, who is Asian-American, works on the Salient. Though "there aren't too many minorities" on the staff, he says that fact has more to do with minority students than with the organization itself...
According to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, who is the faculty adviser of the Salient, Williams and Foster might be right: "There are some young conservatives who are unsympathetic to the suffering of blacks," he says...