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Cloutier-Diflo said the bell broke at 9:30 a.m. yesterday during memorial services for the Class of '55. She added that the problem was likely the aftermath of a previous mechanical breakdown this spring...
...murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...
This naked display of racism is only one example of a general "breakdown in civility" on U.S. campuses. Such is the theme of a report that will be issued this week by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which surveyed American colleges for a year before compiling Campus Life: In Search of Community. Though the report's language is muted and scholarly, its message is loud and clear: the "idyllic vision" of college life "often masks disturbing realities," including racism, sexism, homophobia and anti- Semitism...
...abruptly for no obvious reason, as was also demonstrated last week. Early on, the air was filled with predictions that another hostage would be freed. But at midweek the movement suddenly stopped dead. Hussein Musawi, a Lebanese Shi'ite leader who was instrumental in Polhill's release, blamed the breakdown on the U.S. House of Representatives for passing a nonbinding resolution urging that a united Jerusalem become the capital of Israel. "The Muslims in Lebanon offered a rose only to get a stone thrown on them," said the bearded cleric. The resolution was ill timed as well as contrary...
Each week brings fresh news of vicious attacks, racist slurs and intimidation on campus. The Carnegie Foundation details the "breakdown of civility" and the risks ahead for colleges trying to rebuild community. At Harvard, a black law professor votes with his feet: until the university adds a "woman of color" to the tenured faculty, Derrick Bell is on strike...