Word: yasin
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...Zayed M. Yasin ’02, who has received reams of press for the speech he will be delivering today, also has service plans for next year. He’ll be working for Aga Khan Health Services in Gilgit, Pakistan...
Commencement speaker Zayed M. Yasin ’02 is embroiled in controversy after The Crimson reports he would speak about the concept of “jihad,” as applied to graduating seniors’ lives. A week later, Yasin agrees to drop the word jihad from the speech’s title, although it remains in the subtitle, and agrees to add a sentence condemning violence in the name of jihad, which includes a denunciation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
Following the outcry, University President Lawrence H. Summers issued a lukewarm statement supporting Yasin, including this sentence: “I am pleased that there have been a number of constructive conversations that have addressed potential divisions in our community associated with his speech...
...anything, Summers did not go far enough. While he did condemn a death threat that Yasin received, he failed to address the negative personal attacks that have been made on Yasin—something he could and should have done strongly as a University president interested in maintaining standards of debate within our academic community...
Commencement means beginning. As we continue into the real world and real life, what could be a more appropriate beginning than this—Yasin turning our pain of last fall into a hope for a new beginning and some moral direction? He’s not saying we have to agree with all his moral decisions—maybe you disapprove of HLF, and maybe you don’t. But the speech doesn’t have anything to do with HLF. Like most graduation speeches, it has to do with you. Yasin is saying that each individual...