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...criticism nearly as soon as it was published. Hebah M. Ismail ’06 wrote a Crimson editorial in response to the parody. “There are certain components necessary to have a tolerant and accepting community,” Ismail, who is also a Crimson editor, says. “And I think The Salient crossed the line...
Kavulla, who is also a Crimson editor and a former Crimson editorial executive, answered Ismail’s concerns on the Crimson’s Editorial page the next day. The back page, he explained in an editorial, was a parody designed to critique the Fulla doll’s proud endorsement of Muslim values. “The Salient’s back page is a parody premised on the seemingly absurd yet real attempt to turn licentious, Western Barbie into an equivalent befitting the Arab world, where a number of states are dominated by radical Islamic values...
Since its institution in 1981, the Salient has certainly done a lot of that. During the editorship of Gladden J. Pappin ’04, gay rights advocacy provided constant fodder for the magazine’s criticisms. In a Dec. 2002 letter to the editor, Pappin praised a 1920 secret court that disciplined homosexual students. The Harvard administrators’ actions had not been public until an article in Fifteen Minutes reported on them that December...
...observer at the time said few students noticed. “The Salient has become so reactionary that its views no longer raise a campus eyebrow,” wrote Kenyon S.M. Weaver ’04 in a Crimson editorial. Pappin and The Salient, concluded Weaver, an FM editor, had made themselves irrelevant. “Pappin’s views and The Salient as a whole have so clearly fallen almost entirely outside the circle of reasonable dialogue that it is simply not worth the time or energy to argue,” he wrote...
True, Kavulla has people talking. But many of them are talking about him and his journalism—not about radical Islam. Salient editors spend a lot of their time debating how provocative to be, says Tiskus, who is also a Crimson editor. She and a few supporters believe that Kavulla should publish less controversial material, and they make their opinions heard. “I think it is a good idea to make the magazine into a broad spectrum of diverse thought,” she says. Using caution, she says, would avoid alienating readers...