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Over the years Counter has provided refuge for the less heard and represented voices at Harvard. I had the personal privilege of interacting with this courageous man. He went to great extents to empower students from all walks of life to realize their dreams. His respect for this institution is beyond questioning; so is his aspiration for its potential...
...indeed a sad day when an esteemed Harvard institution such as Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter is subjected to a character assassination attempt such as that unleashed by Adam Goldenberg ’08 Sahil K. Mahtani ’08. Counter has labored with unparalleled enthusiasm to make Harvard the multicultural and tolerant place that it is today. If he chooses to send a shock wave into the system that he aspires to be a beacon of tolerance through his choice of harsh words, then let us be respectful of his disappointment, for his vision for this great...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, has earned respect not only throughout Harvard’s campus, but also beyond our gates due to his continuous engagement with students of color over many decades, which has ended up leaving the Harvard community a more welcoming place, and indeed the world a better place. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 (“Dishonest Discourse,” column, May 21) is not wrong for bringing up her true feelings about issues of racism on campus, but she is out of line when...
Before one attacks Counter and the Harvard Foundation, and attempts to give us a lesson on South African apartheid (did Caldwell take a course in South African history like some of us have, or did she simply visit wikipedia and feel it was time to drop some knowledge?), I ask that she review her history, not only of racism on this campus and throughout the world, but on the contributions of S. Allen Counter—hopefully then, she and all of us will realize why this article, despite its efforts to engage the racial issue on campus, was completely...
...Allen Counter is Director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and associate professor of neurology...