Word: salients
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Travis Kavulla ’06-’07 is a history concentrator from Mather House and is the editor of The Harvard Salient. He returns for a fourth semester as a columnist to write “The Learning Curve,” focusing (mostly) on undergraduate education, which will run on alternate Mondays...
...Salient is] totally out of the mainstream. It doesn’t reflect the values of anyone but a fringe group of people...
...does make a powerful point when you contrast these cartoons with even more vile cartoons from Middle Eastern publications,” he said, referencing a cartoon from the Egyptian paper al-Ahram depicting Jews killing children and drinking their blood, which the Salient published next to the cartoons of Muhammad. “I hate to say it, but provocative content can have meaning...
...that the purpose of publishing the cartoons was to promote “intelligent discussion” on campus, the president of the Harvard Democrats, Eric P. Lesser ’07, said the publication of the cartoons was having a negative effect on campus dialogue and that The Salient is no longer relevant on campus...
...Salient, especially this year, has totally marginalized itself to the point where it has become almost a caricature of itself,” Lesser said, labeling The Salient editors “extremists?...