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...Quad this past weekend, when members of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) and the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) found their right to use the Quad questioned by members of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) after a group of individuals on the Cabot House list decided—no questions asked—that they did not “look like” Harvard students, and must be trampling the Quad’s precious grass without permission...
...vaunted intellectual superiority, chances are that, whether consciously or not, 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...
...Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris wrote yesterday in a e-mail to Cabot residents that he found the call to HUPD “inappropriate...
...members of the groups played games of dodgeball and capture-the-flag in the Quad as part of the annual “BMF-ABHW Challenge,” Cabot House residents fired off a string of impassioned e-mails questioning students’ presence on the public lawn—and whether they were students at all. Eventually, the Harvard University Police Department was called about the commotion, and officers asked the students to “keep the noise down,” according to police spokesman Steven G. Catalano...
...People call HUPD because of loud parties, too. People didn’t call HUPD because they were African American,” Cabot resident Jay S. Miller ’09 said in a phone interview...