Word: salients
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...Crimson returns to action next weekend at the Junior Goodwill Games against Trinidad and Tobago, known ’round the Yard as the Harvard Salient...
...less amusing, question of whether homosexuality is, as the Los Angeles Times asked poll respondents this past week, “against God’s will.” (Six in 10 said it was). To use Harvard terms to describe this finding might yield, as one contrarian Salient editor emeritus put it in a Salient e-mail list posting, a headline along the lines of: “Poll: Most Americans are anti-gay bigots...
Student magazines, the center of the past weeks’ controversy, represent an entirely different category. The office of Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 officially recognizes 26 student publications on campus. They cover a wide range of subjects: from the politically charged Salient, Perspective and the Harvard Political Review; to the culturally oriented Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, Zalacain, Diversity and Distinction and Yisei; to light-hearted humor magazines like SATIRE V, Swift and The Lampoon...
...College is now recognizing a distinction between extracurricular activities and a social life,” Kidd says. After watching the formation of groups like harvardparties.com and the UC’s Concert Commission, Kidd says she realized the demand for more social alternatives was salient. And perhaps more important, the upcoming move to Allston has provided a chance to think toward the future. A survey sent to all undergraduates asks detailed questions about social habits, underscoring the University’s recent interest in the subject...
...full disclosure, I’m the publisher of that magazine—whose writers (whether social conservatives or libertarians) are certainly in the minority at Harvard, will always be more read, and scrutinized, than the liberal Perspective will. But this hardly means the council should provide the Salient with more money than Perspective...