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Calling the killing of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador last month an attack on peace and justice for that country's citizens, Reverend David Hollenbach of the Weston School of Theology commemorated the massacre in a memorial service yesterday...
...Tens of thousands of people have been killed. Not only the six Jesuits, but also the women from the U.S., the workers...All of these people who are known to us through the TV and the newspapers are really deeper symbols of the people of El Salvador," Hollenbach added...
...November 28 Crimson, Daniel Baer explained that "Harvard students are bored with tabling and rallies. That's why COCA's recent actions were so appropriate." It is difficult to understand how undergraduate apathy with regard to the El Salvador issue makes the draft notices so appropriate. It might be true that many students have not involved themselves with COCA's cause, and this is probably true for a variety of reasons: perhaps some students who work in addition to studying just plain don't care (though that is hard to believe). The point is that these people (myself included) have...
...this makes the draft notice an issue about privacy. Had there been a poster on a wall, or a note slipped under my door, or a rally in my dining hall, I would have no argument. But when my privacy is involved, my position on the El Salvador issue becomes irrelevant. What if they had sent me a letter telling me that my mother had been killed by Salvadoran terrorists? Should I have boarded the next plane home...
...case like this, to "petty proceduralism." I guess I just remember one day in Justice, in my first year, when Michael Sandel quoted Kant as saying, "Let justice be done though the heavens may fall." I agree that we all need to be more aware of the El Salvador crisis. But my agreement is irrelevant. What is most important is that all members of the Harvard community can feel secure in their right to make their own choices and in their right of privacy. Brian Brooks...