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Last year, Zayed M. Yasin ’02 was selected as the undergraduate English orator. Some students and national media decried the use of the word “jihad” in the title of his speech...
...brought in in a wheelchair, blood caked on his face and a keffiyeh wrapped around his head. "He was on a bus, a civilian bus and the Americans shot him," said Yunis Yasin Suleyman...
...stopped dealing with second-rate news sources, because I didn’t want to deal with biased coverage that I knew only really wanted to smear me,” Yasin says. “I was especially disappointed with the Boston Metro, which ran my photo on the front cover with the title ‘Harvard Grad a Terrorist Supporter?’ I can deal with bad coverage, but my family lives in this area, and I did not want my mom to have to deal with people thinking that...
...Yasin adds that without the wider media coverage, he probably would not have gotten a death threat signed “One Shot, One Kill.” Still, he says he continues to get e-mails of support from Harvard alumni and strangers from around the world...
Besides propelling him into infamy, though, Yasin believes that the scandal did not ultimately change the course of events. “Harvard could not have censored me without compromising on many of its basic principles,” says Yasin. “The media coverage generated a lot of negative correspondence for the University, which put it under a lot of pressure to be as noncommittal as possible. If you will notice, President Summers completely reorganized the commencement speaking committee so that nothing like this could ever happen again...