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Yasin has publicly and strongly condemned violence??in a Crimson op-ed among other places. He is a humanitarian: he has worked with emergency personnel and the Red Cross, both in the U.S. and abroad. We know little about the speech, except that after the outcry began, Yasin changed its name from “American Jihad,” to the original title, “On Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” He has promised to talk about our social obligations as part of privileged Harvard: the struggle to find our internal moral...
Yasin has publicly and strongly condemned violence??in a Crimson op-ed among other places. He is a humanitarian: he has worked with emergency personnel and the Red Cross, both in the U.S. and abroad. We know little about the speech, except that after the outcry began, Yasin changed its name from “American Jihad,” to the original title, “On Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” He has promised to talk about our social obligations as part of privileged Harvard: the struggle to find our internal moral...
...just this week, Harvard failed to endorse the Coalition Against Sexual Violence??s attempt to gain federal funding to help redress the current dearth of resources available for sexual assault victims on campus. The grant would have funded a review of Harvard’s current sexual violence education and the implementation of suggested changes as well as sexual violence education for members of the Ad Board. Lewis has declared the Ad Board to be ill-equipped to handle sexual assault cases; how can it then be denied that an evaluation of its processes and the College?...
Amid the wreckage that the suicide bombers have wrought, to speak of moral equivalence between the combatants is to enter the madhouse. There is no “cycle of violence?? here, in which all parties are guilty. There are Palestinian attempts to slaughter Israeli civilians, and Israeli attempts to capture and kill those responsible for the atrocities —which includes, of course, Arafat himself, whose government gives aid and comfort to the men and women tearing gaping wounds in the world with their bodies and their bombs...
Embedded messages about race and gender are arguably even more damaging. Harvard Medical School professor Carol Newberger argues in Monopoly that Beauty and the Beast implicitly encourages young girls to stay in abusive relationships. With the title characters’ relationship at times resembling domestic violence??she is isolated from her family and imprisoned—the film suggests to viewers that it is the job of the abused to, in Newberger’s words, “socialize and excuse” the abuser...