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These subjects, or alternate approaches to them offered by DTI, may be seen by students as less valid than those taught under Harvard's auspices, which indicates another goal of the Teach-In: opening people's minds to just what they may be missing...
Campbell claimed his impeachment was not valid because it was not unanimous...
...with two abstentions. Treasurer Adam A. Sofen '01, a Crimson editor, has since changed his vote to favor the impeachment of former vice chair David A. Campbell '00 (as the article stated), as has secretary Michael K. T. Tan '01. Still, Tan's initial abstention was quite valid in that he had filled that position but two weeks before and could not possibly have been expected to register judgement so hurriedly. The Board voted to accept abstentions as neither a "yes" or "no" vote, a recusal if you will, so that unanimity could be realized in subsequent motions. Nevertheless...
...attention, I feel that the issue of judicious and fair media coverage of this crime is also an important topic. Smith evidently is not so concerned about this; in supporting his position, he asserts that "all the personal harm possible from character misrepresentation or even from defamation, whether valid or not, is greatly out-weighed by the harm experienced by a victim of sexual assault...
...thing the article did successfully convey was the amount of division and misinformation that exists even within the Jewish community about Chabad and religious Judaism more generally. I believe that many serious critiques of religious Judaism and religious Jewish beliefs are quite valid, and I highly respect the opinions of those quoted in the article. But the way their quotes were presented and the general tone of the article hinted at the viscerally negative reaction many Jews have toward Chabad. This reaction is the product of misinformation and prejudice and not a small amount of "ethnic self-hatred"--the feeling...