Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black student, I have lost faith in the notion that the police will follow their responsibility of serving and protecting me. When I walk back to my dorm from a friend's room at 3 a.m., the police car that circles the Yard is not a reassuring presence. I wonder if I will be the first "suspect" the police grab when they respond to a crime. If the police are so unprofessional that they harass innocent Black students, how can we rely on them to protect the Harvard community as a whole...
Like I said, I didn't plan on coming. But a couple of guys in my dorm mentioned they were going, and the awesome beast known as Freshman Week Peer Pressure took over. I found myself heading to 14 Plympton...
...self-segregation has in several places gone beyond issues of comfort. When the practice reaches levels like that Cornell, where whole, dorms are set aside for people of a certain color, it merits concern, and condemnation. At this level, self-segregation stops being about individual comfort and begins being about racism and division. The assumption behind an all-Black dorm is that there is some benefit in having people of a certain race, and only that race, living together...
This acceptance of serious minority self-segregation indicates that people are missing an important point: exclusivity is contagious. Under the current housing arrangements at Cornell, a white student will be more likely to see Blacks as "those people in that dorm," rather than as "the guy down the hall." That distinction between seeing people as individuals versus seeing them as members of a certain race makes all the difference. The former fosters understanding and dialogue, the latter distrust and prejudice. The resultant distrust ensures that the self-segregation of one group will soon be followed by that of others...
...facts are as follows. On December 29, 1992, at 6:45 in the morning the building superintendent at Matthews Hall heard noises coming from the basement linen drop off room and was suspicious. The dorm was closed for Christmas vacation, there were no students in the building and no one was supposed to be in it at that hour...