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Though he has now run the show solo for 12 years, it probably looks exactly like it did during the Carter Administration. Under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, throw-backs like an old-school beer price guide and a retro Coca-Cola refrigerator scatter the floor. Newspaper clippings yellowed with age and old photos line the wall behind the counter...
...Carter’s address—entitled “Making History”—did not dwell on past achievements but focused instead on encouraging dialogue and engaging students in “provocative question raising,” as Carter said...
Drawing a parallel to the ideological split between followers of turn-of-the-century thinkers Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois that reached its apogee during the Civil Rights Movement, Carter said that blacks today face new challenges as socioeconomic, gender, and religious “schisms” within the black community become more apparent...
Stevie N. DeGroff ’06, who attended Friday night’s event after learning that Carter would be speaking, said that she preferred the discussion format of the event to a traditional lecture. She also said that she would like to see more open dialogue on campus about issues that face the black community. “There should be more forum discussions like this,” she said...
Praising student groups for writing editorials and distributing these reading lists, Carter said after her speech that she was “impressed with the intellectual content of the events...