Word: ciceroism
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Last year residents of Cicero, a Chicago-area community notorious for its racism, called the police to report that a black man was impersonating a police officer, wearing a police uniform and driving a squad car. That was patrolman Wesley Scott, the town's first and only black policeman. Almost ! daily, he endures racial insults and humiliation, not only from the people he has sworn to protect but also from some of his fellow officers upon whom his life may depend...
...March 1987, two days after Wesley Scott graduated from the police academy and joined the force in suburban Cicero, he discovered a photo of the Ku Klux Klan pasted to his locker. "Who's going to kill Wesley?" one of the robed Klansmen in the picture asked. Another replied, "I'm going to kill Wesley." Across the bottom was written "The Ku Klux Klan is going to kill you." Recalls Scott: "A few of the guys were shaking their heads, but a lot of the guys were laughing." Scott did not report the incident to his superiors, one of whom...
...Geneva, New York native--who joins Harvard Sports Information Director Frank Cicero and fellow Assistant SID Jeff Bradley on the sports publicity staff--will cover all Harvard teams, but Cicero said he expects she will concentrate on the men's and women's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, football and field hockey teams...
...good writer, but her character and personality really made her stand out in the interview," Cicero. "She has charisma that makes her a little bit special. Everyone we talked to about Julie indicated that she is much better than your average person...
Although Rice is not the first woman to hold the position of assistant SID at Harvard, Cicero said it was the first time that a second assistant position was used at the little-known, but invaluable office responsible for promoting and publicizing Harvard sports...