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...students—many who lived in the Quad—appear so foreign to the vigilant Quadlings that day? One conventional answer is self-segregation: Black students stick to their own, so others are slow to recognize them. The blame shifts—inappropriately—to the campus??s minority groups...
President Summers seemed to mistake the campus??s persistent invocation of the precious term “dialogue” for a bona fide invitation to frank discussion. Of course, he was wrong—“dialogue” is a vacuity hiding behind a pretty-sounding facial meaning. Such terms have blossomed into wide, unexamined usage at Harvard in our times, and my classmates can be thankful they are graduating from this realm of self-contradicting doublespeak: Where “dialogue” means the neutering of conversation for sensitivity’s sake...
...Stretching from this highly activist period of the campus??s history through two committee revisions and numerous iterations, right up to the present—when some of the key figures behind its development appear to be wondering if it might be time for a change—the evolution of the council represents an ongoing process in determining how students can best govern their own. That process may well continue for some time...
Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus??he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...student members of the Association of Black Harvard Women and the Black Men’s Forum was not a mere noise issue. First, the Cabot students assumed their black peers—black students who were wearing Harvard apparel and who are leaders of many prominent organizations on campus??to not be members of Harvard. Second, HUPD acted on this incorrect assumption by demanding identification and authorization of the students’ right to utilize their lawn. If this were simply a noise complaint, ID would not have been required...