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Benjamin Z. Galper ’02, one of the students organizing the protest, said the students’ intention is not to disrupt Yasin but to bring attention to concerns about the speech...
...taking it too seriously,” he says. “It was pretty silly.” In recent years, he says, he has mellowed. He says he hopes that he and his critics—led by Levey and Benjamin Z. Galper ’02—will be able to issue a joint statement of either agreement or “respectful disagreement...
Over the next week, the media frenzy intensified. As with any number of stories this year involving Harvard and controversy, the media took the story and ran with it, except this time it was already amplified by its Sept. 11 context. Yasin, Levey and Galper were featured on various talk shows and in reports, and The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe all filed stories...
Meanwhile, following discussions earlier in the controversy between Yasin and committee members, as well as e-mail communication between Yasin and some students, Yasin met with Galper and Leverett House Senior Tutor Catherine Shapiro Wednesday morning, May 29. He also met that day with Thomas—the meeting at which, according to Shinagel, Yasin agreed to change the title of the speech. He also agreed to add a sentence condemning violence in the name of jihad, including a condemnation of the Sept. 11 attacks. He had condemned both publicly before...
...next day, Yasin met with Galper, a former president of Hillel, and Thomas. Galper said the changes were “a step in the right direction,” although he said he still had concerns about the speech—that Yasin, for example, had still not specifically condemned groups that fund or actively participate in violent jihad. Petitioners also said they were considering handing out flyers on Commencement Day explaining their opposition to the speech and the way in which it was chosen. But the controversy, clearly, was dying down...