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Much to the dismay of the cult of reactionary conservatism on campus, the Undergraduate Council recently came out in support of co-educational housing. On open-lists across the campus— but especially that of The Harvard Salient (that bastion of reason!)—aflame conservatives have predictably christened the move as a step toward eternal damnation. The College, they argue, should not approve such a policy because its ‘sinfulness’, in the words of one e-mail, would compromise the school...
...discussion,” he says, “while Republicans are comfortable taking religious beliefs into account as one factor among many in crafting our policy.” According to HRC member Travis R. Kavulla ’06, also editor of conservative campus newspaper the Harvard Salient and a Crimson editor, Republicans are seen as blind followers who don’t understand the ideals behind the group.They are seen as “largely uneducated, brainwashed people living in rural communities or in the South,” says this practicing Catholic. Kavulla says that Republicans...
...directly perpetrated by students, Islamophobia exists in less overt forms at Harvard. Many Muslim students have experienced moments when they said they have felt surprised or offended by others’ assumptions about followers of Islam. A DOUBLE STANDARDA few months after Farid’s encounter, The Harvard Salient published the now-famous anti-Islamic Danish cartoons. Associate Dean of Harvard College Judith H. Kidd responded with an e-mail to the conservative biweekly warning that “some segments of the campus and surrounding communities may be sufficiently upset by the publication of the cartoons that they...
...today’s less restrictive world, the growing appearance of confident women does not completely oppose Mansfield’s thesis, but it does question its longevity. In a recent interview with The Harvard Salient, Mansfield said, “I begin from the fact that men seem to have a quality of manliness about them that you don’t find in women, or don’t find to the same degree, or don’t find in the same...
Student groups should also make an effort to get their advisers to interact not only with the organization’s leaders, but also with its members. For example, The Harvard Salient adviser Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 recently went on a croquet outing with the staff: “I stayed until I was just overcome with pleasure,” Mansfield told Fifteen Minutes. This kind of interaction, free from the strictures of grades and assignments, could be a far more rewarding model of student-faculty interaction, especially if supplemented by an educational component...