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...shame that John Larew was disappointed by his visit to my alma mater, Duke University--if he was indeed disappointed. He apparently had hoped that the addition of hundreds of bright youngsters from New York and the rest of the Northeast would provide a pocket of tolerance in the "cultural desert of central North Carolina." Instead, he found white and Black students not living together or associating much with each other, and heard some bigoted remarks from members of (evidently only one) fraternity. The outraged Mr. Larew then wrote an article in The Crimson explaining why he is glad...
...makes one wish it were true, but the real facts are much more pedestrian. The Salient has had no connection with the Conservative Club since 1982. Therefore, while many Salient staff members did oppose the club's invitation of Abe Hoppenstein (and its subsequent sponsorship of a speech by Duke Kent Brown), our opposition was no more significant than that of any other students...
...Duke frats, I saw pervasive, overt intolerance. And racial minorities are not the only victims. One Duke student told me "They say ten percent of the student body is gay. But they're so in the closet--if you're gay, no one knows about it. They just go to tearooms...
Then I remembered why I went to Harvard. I do not deny that racism and homophobia exist on this campus. But there is a difference. Here, intolerance is intolerable. A racial slur in a house common room at Harvard would draw instant condemnation. At Duke, I saw racist, sexist and homophobic sentiments accepted--and even encouraged--in fraternities...
Harvard certainly has a long way to go to eliminate intolerance among its own. But at least Harvard does not allow the intolerant to unite in residential bastions where they can reinforce each other's prejudices. Until Duke aggressively integrates its housing, I'll prefer Harvard...