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...anything, Summers did not go far enough. While he did condemn a death threat that Yasin received, he failed to address the negative personal attacks that have been made on Yasin—something he could and should have done strongly as a University president interested in maintaining standards of debate within our academic community...
Commencement means beginning. As we continue into the real world and real life, what could be a more appropriate beginning than this—Yasin turning our pain of last fall into a hope for a new beginning and some moral direction? He’s not saying we have to agree with all his moral decisions—maybe you disapprove of HLF, and maybe you don’t. But the speech doesn’t have anything to do with HLF. Like most graduation speeches, it has to do with you. Yasin is saying that each individual...
Hunt did not say whether the increased security was related to the controversy surrounding the Commencement speech of Zayed M. Yasin ’02, which had drawn criticism for its original title “American Jihad.” Yasin changed the title last week to “Of Faith and Citizenship” and relegated the contentious word to a subtitle that will not appear in today’s Commencement program...
...legion of umbrellas sprouted throughout the audience when the rain began to fall during the Senior English Address by Zayed M. Yasin...
...rain clouds were not the only dampers on the proceedings. Scores of students wore red, white and blue ribbons in protest of the address by Yasin, in which he spoke of the meaning of “jihad” from his point of view as an American Muslim. Yasin’s speech, however, garnered one of the longest rounds of applause of the morning. (See related story...