Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Black alumni often feel a special sense of leadership duties. "There is a tradition at Harvard that you have a special responsibility," Clark said...
Since there are few faculty role models, Black alumni have a responsibility to reach out to undergraduates, Green said. "By the time you are in a position to offer advice, "you're sufficiently old that you've forgotten what it's like to be an undergraduate," said Green. Undergraduates "don't have the courage or initiative to up and call," she said...
...Black college graduates also have a responsibility to go out and actively encourage children, Green said, especially inner-city minority children...
Extra responsibilities, extra problems with roommates, extra needs to prove their abilities--are they enough to make Black students who have come through Harvard wish they had gone elsewhere...
Bailey said that Black life at Harvard should not be construed as entirely negative. "There were positive issues," she said, pointing to the success of the alumni conference...