Word: salients
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...discussion was held in response to a parody ad published by The Salient, which was considered offensive by many members of the Muslim community, according to the Foundation. The ad featured the Fulla doll, a Barbie alternative popular throughout the Islamic world. The ad boasted of the doll’s “Muslim Values” and touted fake programmed phrases such as “Yes, Husband” and “Human Rights? That’s silly...
...editor of The Salient, Travis R. Kavulla ’06, was present at the discussion, along with leaders of other student groups, such as Khalid Yasin ’07, the president of the Harvard Islamic Society...
Still, while The Salient avoids directing its ire at members of the GLBT community themselves, its hostility to the BGLTSA, presumably as a consequence of the latter’s lefty leanings, is overt: an ad for The Salient asks, “Do you cringe involuntarily at acronyms like SLAM, BGLTSA and PETA...
Even conservative campus magazine The Salient seems to more or less be willing to consider the traditionally-liberal pro-gay marriage stance. Earlier this year, the magazine took up the marriage issue “through the lens of divorce rates, not gay marriage, which is where any discussion of the traditional family’s contemporary problems should begin and end,” according to editor Travis R. Kavulla ’06, who is also a Crimson editor. In other words, arguably the most conservative Harvard publication chose to focus on problems with heterosexual marriage rather than...
...just like back at Harvard, where conservative student monthly The Salient frequently quipped about West’s radical methodology, Princeton has given the professor a fair share of its own detractors. The September 2005 cover of Princeton’s humor magazine The Princeton Tiger, for instance, features a vaguely offensive caricature of Cornel West playing beer pong and wearing a golden dollar sign pennant around his neck...