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...Conservative Club] discussed that long before the shanties went up. We said if the SASC people put up shanties, we should put up anti-shanties. We were discussing that long before the shanties went up. And then when they went up, a lot of people--many just interested people we called--set them up, and just built these shanties...
...start believing what they say so they get wrapped up in what they're doing. They just treat themselves so seriously. So we thought that by putting up a gulag we could protest the fact that the University is basically caving in to these people. And also maybe puncture [SASC's] balloon of seriousness...
Last year, for example, one week after the day-long SASC sit-in at the Harvard Corporation's headquarters at 17 Quincy St., Kashani invited the South African consulate general to address a closed meeting of conservative at Lowell House. A mob of students, including many SASC members, blockaded Lowell House, preventing the departure of the South African diplomat until the police were able to extricate him. Following this incident, the University revived a Vietnam-era disciplinary committee which eventually placed 10 students--all SASC members--on academic probation for the Lowell blockade...
This incident "was nothing but a ploy to anger the liberal community," says SASC member Evan O. Grossman '87-88, who currently works for a Massachusetts Democrat. "I think most members of the liberal wing would argue that Kashani is a grandstander. They view him as someone who likes to be annoying...
Kashani's sense of the ironic comes through in whatever he does, whether he's erecting a black tower to mock SASC's white tower, or he's dressing up as a German stormtrooper and firing toy cannons during his high school's field day. "It's never been entirely clear to me how serious Saied is" about his political activities, said Damon Silvers '86. "There's an element of the prankster...