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Members of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) and the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) enjoyed their annual ABHW/BMF Challenge this past weekend. Amid games of dodgeball, capture the flag, spades, and relay races, the participants got a special surprise: a visit from the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...
...evidence of this thought process in action, we need to look no further than the response to the incident in the Quad this past weekend, when members of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) and the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) found their right to use the Quad questioned by members of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) after a group of individuals on the Cabot House list decided—no questions asked—that they did not “look like” Harvard students, and must be trampling the Quad?...
...even you, the enlightened Harvard student, have some ideas about race and who does or does not “look like” your fellow student. Yet, rather than acknowledge any of this, in the wake of the Cabot incident, many people simply accused the concerned ABHW and BMF members of unnecessarily “playing the race card,” and bringing a racial component into a situation that clearly did not merit it. Some even expressed concern that discussion of this sensitive issue was too divisive, and would breed tension on campus that would damage...
...members of the groups played games of dodgeball and capture-the-flag in the Quad as part of the annual “BMF-ABHW Challenge,” Cabot House residents fired off a string of impassioned e-mails questioning students’ presence on the public lawn—and whether they were students at all. Eventually, the Harvard University Police Department was called about the commotion, and officers asked the students to “keep the noise down,” according to police spokesman Steven G. Catalano...
Barnhill and ABHW President Anjelica M. Kelly ’09 both said they felt racism was involved in Saturday’s events...