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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...
True, Kavulla has people talking. But many of them are talking about him and his journalism—not about radical Islam. Salient editors spend a lot of their time debating how provocative to be, says Tiskus, who is also a Crimson editor. She and a few supporters believe that Kavulla should publish less controversial material, and they make their opinions heard. “I think it is a good idea to make the magazine into a broad spectrum of diverse thought,” she says. Using caution, she says, would avoid alienating readers...
Brushed aside by the Salient, Yasin decided to approach Dean Kidd and Counter. At their meeting last week, according to Yasin, the parties present quickly agreed free speech prohibited any punitive action against the Salient. But they also brainstormed two proposals to mitigate the effects of similar articles in the future. The first, a more specific goal, was to enlighten students about the Fulla doll—especially that the doll does not say what the Salient claims it says...
Presented with the possibility, Kavulla said he thought a permanent organization is not necessary. He has repeatedly expressed frustration with groups who attack his magazine. “Instead of taking out their rage on The Salient, campus Muslims would be wise to focus their attentions on those places from whence their faith came,” he wrote in the Crimson editorial, “those places where what is called ‘moderate Islam’ is today besieged...