BREAKING: Harvard’s Black Mass to Be Held Off Campus UPDATED
May 12, 2014 By
Perhaps our prayers are already having an effect. This just in from The Harvard Crimson,
The Harvard Extension School Cultural Studies Club said it will relocate its reenactment of a Satanic black mass ritual, scheduled for Monday night, to an off-campus site, citing in an email that “misinterpretations about the nature of the event were harming perceptions about Harvard and adversely impacting the student community.”
The club emphasized that Harvard had not asked them to move the event from its previous location, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub in the basement of Memorial Hall, and commended the University for affirming its members’ rights to free speech and assembly.
“Harvard always demonstrated that it understood its responsibility to defend protected student speech. That was always made clear to us,” the club wrote in a second email.
The club still said it was dismayed by harsh and widespread criticism of the event. The re-enactment has received sharp condemnation by the Archdiocese of Boston, the Harvard Chaplains, a group of religious and spiritual leaders on campus, several student groups, and University President Drew G. Faust.
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The event will now be held at The Middle East nightclub at 472 Massachusetts Ave. at 9:00 p.m., according to the Club’s email
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