Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fritzner's background is an important factor in this controversy. Can one argue that the poster is racist, if the artist was depicting scenes from his own life in Haiti? Though it is more likely that Fritzner's work is honest and meaningful rather than a portrayal of blacks as watermelon-eaters, given the loaded image of this poster and the stereotype it evokes of Southern blacks, the Lowell House dining hall may be an inappropriate place to hang it, particularly because it was purchased by the former dining hall manager as a nice piece of decoration. Nonetheless, these issues...
Ironically, Hrones and those he criticizes share some common ground. Both he and the current overseers stress the need for diversity of background on the Board...
Considerations of breadth of background among the Board are also stressed by one of this year's candidates, Deval L. Patrick '78, the former assistant attorney general, charged with running the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division...
...contributions to the board go beyond my race, and I think that is how I was selected," he says, "But if I can also contribute a diversity of background and view to the board's deliberations than I am anxious...
...decided to take the leap for public office because of what I was seeing in the volunteer and civic work I was involved in," Barrios says, pointing to his experiences teaching in public schools and his housing law background as qualifications...