Word: coops
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Prompted by a Black undergraduate's claim that she was unjustly accused of theft by security guard in the Harvard Coop last month, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has asked the store to institute racial sensitivity training programs for all employees and to discipline the staff members involved...
...hour-long meeting held December 14, Coop President James Argeros apologized verbally to the student, Maisha V. Moses '91, and promised to discipline employees for the incident, Epps and Moses said last week...
Epps said that Argeros and Dawn J. Krasinski, the Coop's director of security, seemed "responsive" to his and Moses' proposals. "Clearly, the Coop made a mistake, and did apologize during the meeting," Epps said...
...statement describing the incident, Moses said that she entered the Coop's music section on December 11 and initially decided to buy a new L.L. Cool J compact disc. After reconsidering her decision, she put the CD back and left the store, whereupon she was stopped by two security guards who asked to search her bag, Moses said...
...There's this profile that people have. You see that young Black people are in the store, you think they're there to steal. It's not just a Coop problem, it's a societal problem," Moses said...