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...which the Harvard Foundation bestowed grants to student organizations this year. The race relations office proffered funding to the rag, a feminist magazine and to HQ, a gay-issues magazine. But the office, whose mandate is to award grants that promote interracial understanding last year denied funding to Peninsula, an often-inflammatory right-wing publication whose editors were planning an issue devoted to race relations. Again, the conflict between diversity and open expression became a matter of campus debate...
...better explanation than jealousy, though, is a kind of dread. Perspective's fearful David Kennedy heaps slurs at the magazine: "The type of sexism advanced by Inside Edge is much more invidious than the patriarchal politics of Peninsula...
Kennedy gives Inside Edge too much credit. Peninsula is invidious because it is written intellectually. Its arguments, however disturbing, are stated logically and convincingly; its unreasonable agenda is couched in reasonable terms. Inside Edge editors claim simply to write a magazine that guys would like to read. Even the most sexist Inside Edge copy is far too vapid to pass for intelligent discourse...
Stated another way, Peninsula writers are smart, while Inside Edge writers are stupid. Yet that's not quite right; the Harvard juniors behind Inside Edge aren't truly insipid. They're just acting stupid--because that's the way they think they're supposed...
...agree with Peninsula (again?): "Dean Jewett has made clear where his own affections...