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...growing. The administration needs to show more sensitivity to students who are becoming more vulnerable to attacks and harassment. Many Muslim students on campus were disappointed by the Salient’s decision to reprint the Danish cartoons. But Dean Kidd’s email to the Salient has deeply offended many. After being directly associated with violence by the Salient, the students would have appreciated an expression of concern for their safety by the administration in case they themselves became targets of violence. What they got instead was a suggestion that they would be the perpetrators of that violence...
Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07, the editor of the Salient, said in an interview yesterday that he understood and sympathized with the concerns of Muslim students on campus...
...last Friday, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 promised to work with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd to issue a public “clarification” of Kidd’s recent e-mail warning the editors of The Harvard Salient that “some segments of the campus... may become dangerous” after the paper published the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad...
...College did not even e-mail the Muslim community to express a concern for our wellbeing. So when the Muslims community finds out that an administrator emails the Salient editors that states ‘The College is concerned for your welfare,’ without any threats being reported, it can not help but feel that there is differential treatment,” she wrote...
...editor of the Salient, in contrast, said his staff has not received an e-mail or a call that could be conceived as “at all threatening...