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...Conservative Club, masterminding a series of events that have ruffled the feathers of the left. But he was also one of the prime movers in the Harvard Model United Nations for four years, an academic dynamo in two disparate fields, and occasional journalist for both the Crimson and the Salient...
Particularly distressing was the omission of some groups that were equivalent in size and purpose to those that were included. SASC and The Salient made it and so did Room 13--but don't look for the Committee on Central America, Perspective or the four other peer couseling groups on campus...
...seems reasonable to expect those who wish to engage in polemic to get their facts straight. When the wager of a polemic is a journalist, such a responsibility seems all the more incumbent. A "Brass Tacks" piece by Steven Lichtman entitled "Our Shantytown," whose salient point was that SASC should tear the shanties down, seemed sadly misinformed. This misinformation was entirely avoidable. Lichtman might have joined the hundreds of people who have asked questions at the information desk of the Open University during the last five weeks, and saved himself the burden of writing a shoddy article...
...Contras "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." Recently Secretary of State George P. Shultz insisted on our "moral duty" to help the rebel forces, and Reagan expounded his sentiments further in declaring the Contras "the moral descendants of the men at Valley Forge." In last month's Salient, John L. Worden concluded that aiding the Contras is "a moral imperative." When the administration and its supporters must repeatedly advertise that their policy is moral, it probably...
David Alan Sanner '86 is a member of The Harvard Salient...