Word: yasin
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...next day, Yasin met with Galper, a former president of Hillel, and Thomas. Galper said the changes were “a step in the right direction,” although he said he still had concerns about the speech—that Yasin, for example, had still not specifically condemned groups that fund or actively participate in violent jihad. Petitioners also said they were considering handing out flyers on Commencement Day explaining their opposition to the speech and the way in which it was chosen. But the controversy, clearly, was dying down...
Still, the question remains: why didn’t Yasin issue a public statement to try and defuse the situation sooner? Thursday night, over the course of a second, half-hour interview, a fuller picture of Yasin emerges, hinting at the answer...
...father, a Bangladeshi immigrant, came to the U.S. in 1971 and met Yasin’s mother, who is mostly of Irish-American descent, at UCLA. Yasin was born in Chicago, and has subsequently lived in Indonesia, suburban Chicago, Southern California, and finally Scituate, Mass., where he attended the small town’s public schools from the sixth grade onward...
...person Yasin is confident and direct. He does not use many hand gestures, but mostly communicates inflections with his voice and eyes. And on this day, despite the whirlwind of the previous week and the reporter in his dorm suite, he is relaxed...
...hadn’t had that kind of experience over the past two to three years, I wouldn’t have been able to do this,” Yasin says. He has been helped, he adds later, by an “incredible amount of support” from people both inside and outside Harvard, even from those who do not usually weigh in on these kinds of political issues (though his original intent, he has noted before, was to have a nonpolitical speech...