Word: yellin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to say "Hurray" to Jessica Yellin '92 for her courageous letter in The Crimson (February 3) criticizing the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA) for inviting Leonard Jeffries to our campus. I say "Hurry" also to other students--white, Black, Asian, Arab, etc.--who recognize that there are occasions when they must stand up and challenge their peers whose political actions are so morally askew. And this must be done regardless of the recent essentially manipulated anti-Political Correctness posturing among neoconservatives--a posturing based upon grossly exaggerated claims regarding the presence of a left-wing "Politically Correct" takeover...
...concerns of minority groups on campus, perhaps the Black Students Association will. If nothing else, enlightened self-interest should lead Hall and thoughtful members of the BSA to condemn all forms of prejudice of the race and ancestry of the speaker, and withdraw their offer to Leonard Jeffries. Jessica Yellin...
Five students from Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice attended the meeting, including co-directors Julie D. Bornstein '92 and Jessica S. Yellin...
...country is overwhelmingly pro-choice and Congress is skirting the problem rather than addressing the real issue, which is, Do women in this country have the right to make decisions about their own bodies?'" Yellin said. "[The gag rule] is un-American in its most basic sense...
...Yellin also said the coalition was very effective because it brought people of different backgrounds together to work on a common issue...