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...oppression. Star then states that police brutality "actively hurt[s] the black community and keep[s] it from achieving everything that it can." Once again, these two ideas are incompatible. How can police brutality actively hurt the black community, yet not be considered a "direct" form of oppression? We contend that few forms of oppression could be more "direct" than being beaten into submission with a policeman's club...
...Greene's case, no sexual contact has been alleged. Nor is there any suggestion that Greene hindered the two women's careers. Instead, Lieut. Mary E. Felix and ex-Lieut. Pamela Castrucci contend that Greene made them feel uneasy by sending them suggestive cards and gifts and calling them on the telephone. In one poem, for instance, Greene told Felix, "Whenever you need to be adored, I will be there. Whenever you need to be befriended, I will be there. Whenever you need to be comforted, I will be there." In another missive, he declared, "I wanted you just...
...would contend the reserve; that it is unfair to make certain students who have the bad luck to wind up in common rooms bear the entire cost of partitioning. In fact, a small increase in our housing bill might be the just and equitable thing to do. Dean Dingman also suggests that if Harvard started to remedy this particular type of housing discrepancy it would be deluged by student complaints demanding compensation for other types of inequalities. However, it is better for Harvard to have to pick and choose which students to compensate rather than to compensate...
...team now has won three of its four Ivy games, and is still on track to contend for the Ivy title. And it seems to have rekindled the emotional fire essential on any championship squad. Harvard 3 Yale...
...line; that 1 in 3 black males in his 20s is in jail, on probation or on parole; that a black lower middle class consisting of blue-collar workers is shrinking; that a resentful white attitude has resulted in attacks on affirmative action and government assistance, which, African Americans contend, rather than disabling black families by creating excessive dependencies has been inadequate to their needs. These antipodal positions have been hardened by an intellectual debate between those who state that antiblack sentiment has never been more harsh and those who claim that racism is dead...