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...event like the Lowell incident shouldn’t prompt a “real, frank discussion” about race, as Crimson editorial editor Weslie M. W. Turner ’10 called for in her comment, “Dancing Around Lowell Courtyard.” The people who believe that the conversation should be about race actually need a real, frank discussion with themselves.Aparicio J. Davis ’10 is an economics concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...dining hall to announce that a fight had broken out in the party hosted by the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers (HSBSE), I leapt off of my bed in jeans and a sweatshirt to investigate. Seconds after we poked our heads out of our entryway into Lowell courtyard, a police officer was marching towards us. “You kids live in the dorm?” and when we nodded our assent, “You better get inside so that you don’t get mixed up in all this.” Later that...
...stands in the courtyard of her family's house in central Beijing, glancing up as a breeze flutters the leaves of a pomegranate tree. Except for the sounds of playing children in the alley outside, all is silence. "It's hard to believe we are in the center of a city of 15 million, isn't it?" she says. Hers is a traditional, single-story courtyard home in one of the city's ancient hutongs, the lanes that the city's Mongol designers intended as the heart of the metropolis when they planned it in 1272. There were once...
...Still, signs are emerging that the tide may be turning for those fighting the Quixotic fight for preservation of old Beijing. On October 15, Beijing Communist Party Secretary Liu Qi said the city plans to invest 2 billion renminbi ($268 million) over the next few years to renovate courtyard houses to protect the city's cultural heritage, and also to raise the living standards of hutong residents through measures to improve housing, transportation, environment, education, food safety and social security. The change in official attitudes may also lead to a more tolerant response to citizens' efforts to prevent further destruction...
...it’s still the same excitement now.” The elation of the crowd was palpable as the victory chants from Sox fans reverberated throughout the Square and followed the frenzied crowd into the Yard. With streakers on DeWolfe Street, champagne celebrations in Dunster courtyard, and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) stationed around the Yard, the campus reflected scenes of excitement throughout the Boston area. But not all spirits in the Yard were high. Some were skeptical about the size of the crowds and the magnitude of the celebrations. “A true fan stands...