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While many Harvard Square veterans lament the movement from independently owned establishments to chain stores, Harvard alumni seem to accept it as understandable change...
...Robert Oppenheimer ’25, the father of the nuclear bomb, is invited to give the William James lectures. Entitled “A Hope of Order,” the lectures centered on the responsibility of science in the atomic age. Some students and alumni questioned the appointment of Oppenheimer because of his alleged communist ties...
...PHC’s fundraising efforts consisted of much more than letters and phone calls. Indeed, it became a sustained multimedia promotional campaign that sought to reach Harvard alumni all over the country though publications, lavish dinners, and the radio and television airwaves...
...Quad incident has sparked letters from a number of African-American alumni writing on the Black Alumni Network list serve under the heading, “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”A number of students and their parents have stated to me that policemen demanding identification cards from African-American students is reminiscent of the South African apartheid era, when blacks were routinely forced to show their ID cards to white police when they were thought to be “out of place.” Many of our Harvard Police...
...imperfect, the metaphor is apt: students who are routinely subject to identification checks regard their treatment on the Quad lawn as a harsh reminder that, by some, they are not viewed as being part of this community. In fact, in the wake of the incident many black alumni have cited similar trends of excessive scrutiny from HUPD, resident tutors, and their peers. Even faculty members have been subject to similar treatment because of their race. The two aforementioned editorials completely disregarded—and therefore trivialized—these accompanying facts...