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...inconceivable that they had serious misgivings about the plan's heavy reliance on taxes and loose calculations of spending cuts; yet they felt that some deficit reduction, through dubious (and perhaps deleterious) methods, is better than no deficit reduction and continued gridlock...
Local news shows are awash with dubious prime-time...
...have the dubious distinction of being the only African-American female [faculty member] in the College." said Katherine Tate, and associate professor of government...
Oppenheimer (apparently to buttress his dubious claim that he had "participated in a debate") claimed that he and Wasinger exchanged words before Oppenheimer tore down the poster (apparently unaware of Wasinger's presence as a representative of AALARM) before Wasinger approached him. The Crimson reporter also failed to report that Oppenheimer made a call to Wasinger late that night, threatening him personally with "retaliation" if Wasinger and AALARM pursued his case with the administration. This, apparently, is the kind of "non-violent, non-affrontive [sic] debate" that Oppenheimer and his fellows on the BGLSA are interested in--the frantic effort...
Apart from the Crimson's dubious reporting of the story, AALARM found the comment of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett with which the article closed extremely ironic. Jewett claimed that a student would be exempt from College discipline for tearing down posters if the incident were "casual" and done "out of frustration." Such a policy, if adopted as a matter of precedent, would give license to every frustrated student at Harvard to tear down with impunity any poster which happened to annoy him, as long as he could claim that his action was sufficiently "casual...