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Early last week, a flier was placed anonymously in nearly 80 first-year law students’ mailboxes. The flier contained a swastika, anti-Semitic comments and a reprint of Scholl’s e-mail to Simpson...
Although Scholl apologized for the contents of his e-mail, he said he knew nothing about the origin of fliers distributed Tuesday to law school students, which reproduced his e-mail, along with a swastika, profanities and anti-semitic statements...
Nearly 80 first-year Harvard Law School students found a white sheet of paper with a swastika, profanities and anti-Semitic statements stuffed in their mailboxes yesterday morning...
...things are hateful enough to compare to swastikas, and the Christmas tree in Leverett dining hall is not one of them. Schechter’s comparison fails logically: A swastika in Leverett dining hall would be disturbing because swastikas are disturbing, not because it’s wrong to put symbols in public places...
That said, take the trees down already. Inappropriate as it is, the swastika comparison shows that to some people, public endorsement of a Christmas tree might be the spiral arm of something dire. And if Christmas trees are so harmless and secular, why are we bent on erecting them? To prove that Our Fun can’t be spoiled by Some Whiny Minority? Let’s find a new way to decorate, one that generates festivity and spirit instead of bad analogies. I recommend bright fabric, big jars of pasta and squashes with wigs...