But Vascellaro, who is also a Crimson editor, said that she appreciated the fresh humor of the site.
“I think it’s funny, it’s meant to be a joke,” she said. “At the Senior Gift Fund we’re more interested in starting conversation and getting participation among the senior class as high as possible.”
But Terry and Mahan said yesterday that they were not amused by the website.
“I think the trivial tone of the website makes a mockery of the deaths of 340,000 dead human beings in Darfur, the gang rape of countless black women, and the displacement of over 2 million people who now are confronted with the threat of starvation by labeling it as the ‘left-wing cause of the week,’” Terry wrote in an e-mail.
He added that he felt the site had a “distasteful irreverence for human life,” and deserved only “minimal attention.”
—Staff writer Charles F. Pollak can be reached at cpollak@fas.harvard.edu.