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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...
...Department (HUPD) to check whether students playing on the Quad were in fact Harvard students and permitted to be there. It turned out that they were Harvard students who had explicit permission to use the space—and specifically members of the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and Association of Black Women at Harvard (ABWH) participating in an annual contest. Since then the campus has erupted in discussion of the incident and what it shows about the presence of racism at Harvard. Given the details of the situation, the question of whether or not last Saturday?...
...campaign is a response to an incident on the Quad lawn that occurred on Saturday during an event organized by the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). After a string of e-mails sent over the Cabot open-list that questioned whether the participants were Harvard students, one student called University police...
Spearheaded by BMF president Bryan C. Barnhill II ’08, ABHW president Anjelica M. Kelly ’09, and Cabot house resident Katharine E.S. Loncke ’08, the “I Am Harvard” campaign “intends to bring the campus together [through a series of events] to question the conception of what a Harvard student should look like,” said Barnhill...
...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...