Overview
- The publication’s 10-member alumni board suspended operations on Sunday pending a conduct review, calling recent material "reprehensible, abusive, and demeaning."
- Board leaders said they received "deeply disturbing and credible" complaints about the organization’s culture and opened an investigation without specifying which articles or incidents prompted the action.
- Editor-in-chief Richard Y. Rodgers told members on Tuesday the move was an "unauthorized usurpation of power" and said the magazine would continue publishing under student leadership.
- A September print essay by student David F. X. Army echoed a 1939 Hitler formulation and invoked "blood" and "soil," which Rodgers said was not an intentional quotation and was not recognized before publication.
- Harvard, which has no editorial or financial control over the Salient, declined to intervene and referred questions to the magazine’s board.