Harvard Crimson Runs Holocaust-Denier Ad

First, Yale censors Muhammad cartoons in a new book, then the Harvard Crimson runs an ad from a Holocaust denier, notes Gawker. "Can you provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz?" asks the ad from the "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust." A letter from the Crimson president explained the following day that the ad was run in error due to "miscommunication" and that the remaining ad run has been cancelled.

He called it a "logistical failure and not a philosophical" one. "We do not endorse the views put forth in any advertisement," he noted. An ad from the same organization was rejected by the student newspaper 15 years ago. "We didn't want to sell our space to print a hateful message," said a Crimson editorial at that time. (More Harvard stories.)