Word: salients
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...only took two tries for Travis R. Kavulla ’06 to achieve his vision. As newly elected editor of The Salient, Kavulla wanted his magazine to get attention. The second issue of the conservative biweekly has done that—and maybe more. The Oct. 13 magazine won not just reaction on the editorial pages of The Crimson (standard fare for the controversial magazine) but also readership in University Hall, where the president and other members of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) sat down with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and S. Allen Counter...
...parody was part of Kavulla’s campaign to return The Salient to what he sees as its golden age: two years ago, when a Salient editor’s comments sparked a campus debate so ubiquitous the Undergraduate Council passed a bill in response. So in a way, the campaign was working: people were reading, people were talking, and people were getting angry. But Kavulla’s attempt to copy the style of his predecessor also resurrected some of the same issues that predecessor faced—namely, where to draw the line on provocative speech...
...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...