Oh, baloney. Harvard is not sponsoring or endorsing the event. As far as I can tell, the student club isn't even recognized by the school. They don't even appear to be able to get free space on campus.
If I start a “FreeRepublic Posters Cultural Studies Club” and hold an event without any cooperation on the part of Jim Robinson, I don't see why he would be responsible for it.
The only relevant tie to Harvard is that the bar that these people are renting is owned by Harvard.
In contrast, the student organization called Harvard Pro-Life, comprising students and other members of the Harvard community, actually meet regularly on campus, for free.
Does that mean that Harvard endorses the pro-life cause? Hardly!
However, Harvard does recognize and engage with Harvard Pro-Life, which persuaded Harvard to refund that part of the mandatory student health fee that supports free elective abortions for students who object morally to the fee.
Do you think that this further engagement of Harvard Pro-Life by the official university administration makes Harvard pro-life?
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The Harvard Extension Hub, part of the Harvard Extension School, provides information on “school news, blogs, stories & events,” and it posted an “Official Response to Cultural Studies Event” on May 7 about the Black Mass on its website. (The Harvard Extension School is Harvard University’s primary resource for continuing education courses.)
The “official response” states, “An independent student organization, the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club, plans to host a controversial student event involving a historical reenactment of a black mass ceremony that has a narrator providing historical context and background. Satanic Black Mass ‘Reenactment’ Set For Harvard University on May 12
Lucien Greaves, spokesman for The Satanic Temple, which is scheduled to conduct the Black Mass reenactment at Harvard University on May 12, 2014. (Photo: Shane Bugbee/Vice.com)
“Students at Harvard Extension School, like students at colleges across the nation, organize and operate a number of independent student organizations, representing a wide range of student interests.
“Harvard Extension School does not endorse the views or activities of any independent student organization. But we do support the rights of our students and faculty to speak and assemble freely.
“In this case, we understand that this independent student organization, the Cultural Studies Club, is hosting a series of events—including a Shinto tea ceremony, a Shaker exhibition, and a Buddhist presentation on meditation—as part of a student-led effort to explore different cultures.”
The Queen’s Head Pub is in Memorial Hall, which is at “the heart of Harvard’s campus” and was “dedicated in 1878 as a monument to Harvard alumni who died during the Civil War,” it states on its Facebook page. The Hall was completed in 1876, and the Queen’s Head Pub was built in the Hall’s basement in 2007. The pub is 12,000 square feet and can accommodate up to 450 guests. Source
You might have read the thread before piping up (that said, I seldom do).;-)
The location is on Harvard premises. The University could prevent this. It is horribly offensive to Christianity. This has nothing to do with Freerepublic other than the fact thay we are “conservatives” who support Judeo Christian values. This is a curse to the university, our nation, and our future.