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...Hebah M. Ismail ’06 wrote a Crimson editorial in response to the parody. “There are certain components necessary to have a tolerant and accepting community,” Ismail, who is also a Crimson editor, says. “And I think The Salient crossed the line...
Since its institution in 1981, the Salient has certainly done a lot of that. During the editorship of Gladden J. Pappin ’04, gay rights advocacy provided constant fodder for the magazine’s criticisms. In a Dec. 2002 letter to the editor, Pappin praised a 1920 secret court that disciplined homosexual students. The Harvard administrators’ actions had not been public until an article in Fifteen Minutes reported on them that December...
Though Pappin clarified the views expressed in his widely read letter in a longer Salient cover story, titled “Somewhere over the Rainbow: Towards a Dispassionate Look at Homosexuality,” a student observer at the time said few students noticed. “The Salient has become so reactionary that its views no longer raise a campus eyebrow,” wrote Kenyon S.M. Weaver ’04 in a Crimson editorial. Pappin and The Salient, concluded Weaver, an FM editor, had made themselves irrelevant. “Pappin’s views...
During the past year, under the leadership of Kathryn A. Tiskus ’06, the Salient began to move away from the edge it had under Pappin. Most of the parodies decorating the back cover were tame, gently mocking the magazine itself...
...that Kavulla has taken the reins, he is trying to mold The Salient into what it was during Pappin’s days, as he describes it: an engine for campus discourse. “You have to admire Pappin because the Salient was widely read then,” Kavulla says. But his first attempt to copy Pappin has led to the same threat Weaver diagnosed: self-marginalization...