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Harvard has had a long and difficult history in its attempts to deal with race relations on campus. But there are two fundamental ways that Harvard can address the issue: one is to celebrate and foster appreciation of the many cultures represented on campus; the other, more difficult task, is to address head-on, why racial animosity, stereotypes and prejudices still exist in our community. Assistant Dean of the College for Coeducation Karen E. Avery ’87 has been instrumental in reviving Harvard’s institutional commitment to improving racial and intercultural relations on campus. These efforts...
...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, took an important step in appointing Avery to work with the Race Relations tutors in the Houses. According to Lewis’s “Opening-of-term Greetings” Avery’s mandate was “to foster communication about race relations in the Houses and help respond to racial incidents when they arise.” In doing so, he reaffirmed the University’s commitment to matters pertaining to race on campus...
Like FSU, Harvard needs a large public space to foster the sort of daytime socializing necessary to lay the foundations for raucous nighttime partying. In Tallahassee, this function is served by the local grocery store, Publix, which was recently voted the best place in America to find a date by Playboy Magazine. Publix, or “Club Publix” as it is affectionately known by FSU students, is indeed one part grocery store and one part meat market, where tanned and toned co-eds parade the aisles while bands of slobbering fraternity boys follow in tow waiting...
...Strictly speaking, it's not all that practical, but Koolhaas' design made the store a tourist stop. And that's part of the mission. "This spate of very cool, high-design boutiques is the offspring of promotion and the general hipness of design in recent years," says Ellen Ratchye-Foster, a trend analyst at Fallon Worldwide, an advertising agency. Hipness has a very high return on investment. Prada has reaped untold amounts of essentially free advertising from the SoHo store...
Allston resident and smoker Tyler Foster, a Rock Bottom patron, bemoans the increasing restrictions on smoking in public spaces...