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...focal point of this change (and the possible impetus for it all) is the return of the New Members of Congress Conference to Harvard after its brief departure in 1994. According to Forum Director Heather Campion, some 35 of 70 Republicans and Democrats who received invites to this year's New Member ho-down have RSVP'd in the affirmative, though she declined to cite party breakdown. Campion and other K-School administrators will point out that Congress endorsed no official initiation program in 1994, but it was widely reported at the time that the new speaker of the house...
...Washington and the country. Government is what the Kennedy School teaches. Therefore, conservative leaders have been invited to the School, and more and more of them have accepted these invitations." Kalb offers as an example his recruitment of retiring Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.)--whose speech at the forum last spring was greeted with student protest in opposition to the senator's crackdown on immigration--to teach a course in the spring...
Just as Simpson's speech was given prominence, so have other conservatives who have appeared at Forum events. When Ralph Reed spoke on Oct. 30, he could not have received a warmer introduction from Mark Merritt, a former Republican National Committee chieftain who runs an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN...
...concept of the panel discussion will gain new meaning. According to a press release from the Coalition on Urban Affairs (CUA), a euphemistically named right-wing advocacy group, a conference on "Free Speech, Sensitivity and True Tolerance" will be convened next Tuesday at the ARCO Forum focused on the critique of Peninsula printed in this space one month ago. Who is to be included on this K-School panel? CUA says it will have John Leo, a reactionary senior columnist for U.S. News and World Report; Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53; Jose Padilla '97, an acknowledged...
...SPAN, despite the privately-issued P.R. statement, which was faxed to The Crimson some two weeks ago. Campion says the IOP's role in the event would be to provide space and "work closely with students" to make sure that the event "is something that works in the forum." I guess right-wing rhetoric works well in the forum. If Harvard Democrats or the Black Students Association wanted to do forum events, Campion notes that the IOP would host those as well. We'll see if the K-School ends up hosting the conservatives-only panel discussion...