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...neither Assistant Dean Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle's Office of race Relations and Minority Affairs nor S. Allen Counter's Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations has a clearly defined role in the University. Worse, this confusion has led to counterproductive and childish hostility between the two administrators. Of the two offices, the Foundation is more visible on campus and hosts well-attended "feel good" activities which celebrate cultures on campus. But simply celebrating cultures does little to foster acceptance of those cultures by other students...
Furthermore, the Foundation's director, Allen Counter, has largely compromised any role he could play as a builder of racial and ethnic harmony by alienating some students on campus, particularly Jews...
Counter expressed similar attitudes about Jewish media control in a 1985 article in The Crisis magazine and once referred to a Crimson reporter he had not met as a "that militant Jew." Clearly, Allen Counter is not the one to spearhead Harvard's effort to achieve true racial and ethnic understanding...
Case in point: This April, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations Director S. Allen Counter co-signed a long, nasty letter accusing "Crimson writers active in Hillel" of racial insensitivity and bias, of using this newspaper to promote their own "racial agenda." And then all hell broke loose...
Gomes also stepped briefly into a campuswidedebate on race relations and the status of HarvardFoundation director S. Allen Counter...