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...might in the current climate question whether a nation needs to underwrite a performance like that. Sue Townsend, author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, has just published a novel called The Queen and I, which imagines that the royal family has been consigned to a public housing development by a stern republican government that has overthrown the monarchy. The book is both funny and impudent, but it contains a portrait of Elizabeth that is admiring in spite of itself. Townsend plays up Her Majesty's awkwardness, but of all her clan she adjusts best to her alien circumstances...
Jacinda T. Townsend `92 draped a Swastika from her window, hoping the University would force her, Kerrigan and McCormack to remove their banners...
...widespread protests and the concomitant condemnation, however, were futile. Long after Townsend had removed the swastika, Kerrigan's banner winked complacently at those she said were trying to infringe on her right to free speech...
Best thing to happen since Jacinda T. Townsend '92--who wound up in Newsweek for protesting the Confederate flag with creative logic by hanging a swastika from her window--became the Undergraduate Council's publicity chair. Presumably because the unimaginative bigot who scrawled "Faggot" on a Lowell House resident's room was otherwise engaged...
When Bridget L. Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate flag from her Kirkland House window, and when Jacinda T. Townsend '92 responded by hanging a swastika in her own window, the Black Students Association (BSA) and Hillel worked together to formulate an organized response...