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There are some things that seem perpetually destined to serve as the scapegoats and repositories of ill will at any school--whether or not they merit it. Here at Harvard, the popular targets are the Freshman Union, Yale University and UHS. The multitudes of second-hand horror stories about our...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Don't Knock UHS | 1/6/1995 | See Source »

My sophomore year, I was stricken with a very bad stomach virus, not unlike the one that recently plagued the Freshman Union. I was unable to stand, could not stop vomiting and was running a fever. It was the beginning of a long weekend, and I called the UHS urgent...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Don't Knock UHS | 1/6/1995 | See Source »

From my vantage point, these two events reflect a persistent need among many Blacks for cathartic responses or symbolic rebellious responses to racist patterns in American society. It never ceases to fascinate a pragmatic leftist member of the Black American intelligentsia like myself that the appetite for Black solidarist catharsis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to My Students | 12/16/1994 | See Source »

I concede, reluctantly, that the lines of authority as currently drawn provided Dudley House Master. Daniel S. Fisher with the final decision in determining the content of "The Mirror of the Plague." However, I am uneasy with this. There should be a more democratic process to determine the choosing of...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Wolf Was Censored | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

A grand jury today went ahead and chargedFrancisco Martin Duran, the Colorado man accused of spraying the White House with bullets Oct. 29, with trying to assassinate President Clinton. U.S. Attorney Eric Holder said prosecutors would argue Duran -- who could face life in prison -- intended to kill the president when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE SHOOTER CHARGED WITH ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

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