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...Harvard community, and especially those involved in the campus media where Mr. Douthat began his journalistic career, welcomes this news in particular. Mr. Douthat’s speedy rise through the ranks of opinion journalism does our newspaper—as well as the Salient??proud. Harvard for a long time has been privileged as a fertile ground for launching careers of all sorts, especially in journalism. Mr. Douthat, author of Privilege, the celebrated autobiographical account of his undergraduate years, offers further encouragement to the campus’s aspiring writers and thinkers...
...Indeed, the slightest insensitive insinuation is roundly condemned, its perpetrators publicly renounced, and multicultural organizations tasked to host community “conversations” and “raise awareness” to repair the damage. One need not unduly exert his memory to find copious examples. The Salient??Harvard’s impeccably edited premier journal of opinion—several years ago printed a parody of a Barbie-type doll marketed in the Middle East to criticize some of the more repressive policies of the region’s regimes. Unsurprisingly, many campus Muslims interpreted...
...Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole Caricature: Harvard Salient Guy It might be tough to picture the obese, gassy Reilly playing croquet or palling around with Harvard C. Mansfield ’53, but his hilarious anti-modern screeds are stilted and acrimonious enough to fill the Salient??s pages—and maybe even earn him an op-ed column in The Crimson. Character: Roger Mexico—“Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon Caricature: Public Piss Guy Roger Mexico begins the novel romantic (“They...
...like every other student organization at the College, is guaranteed the opportunity to make its views known in the public forum. This is in stark contrast to her stance on this issue just two years ago, when she made it clear that she was concerned about the Harvard Salient??s publication of Danish cartoons considered offensive by many in the Muslim community. According to an e-mail from Dean Kidd provided by an editor of the Salient, Dean Kidd expressed her concern that “some segments of the campus and surrounding communities” might become...
...time favorite remains Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd’s e-mail to the Harvard Salient in February 2006. After the Salient published the infamous Danish cartoons, Kidd warned the Salient??s editor-in-chief that “some segments of the campus…may become dangerous” in response...