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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PAST month and a half, six young black women have been found murdered near their homes in the Roxbury and South End areas. Four of the women, Christine Ricketts, age 15, Andrea Foye, age 17, Gwendoyln Yvette Stinson, age 15, and Caren Prater, age 25, were found within eight days of each other. At first, the murders received little attention from the media and the police. Gwen Stinson's mother notified local police when she became aware of her daughter's uncharacteristic absence. When they failed to respond to her plea for assistance, Mrs. Stinson contacted as many newspapers...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: As Different as Night and Day | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

Later the family was taken to a hotel for the night, where they were left with no food or clothing. Nobody bothered to tell them what would happen next. The home of a nearby relative was stoned later in the week when the family moved in with her. Police found ten suspects, all of whom were charged with vandalism, a misdemeanor. This story took up only one column on page three of The Globe, under the headline "Guatemalan Family Flees." The Boston Herald American didn't carry the story at all. After pressure from a state representative and a lawyer...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: As Different as Night and Day | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

...deeply rooted in the attitudes of politicians, the press, school officials, and the average person-on-the-street. In response to the black community's outcry over the handling of the murders, a Globe editorial urged the community to "pull together, and keep the pressure on" until solutions are found. Until Boston leadership learns to respect the rights of all its residents equally, however, lack of protection for inner city minorities will remain politics as usual...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: As Different as Night and Day | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

Thoughts of a Northeastern team winning a Beanpot in anything did their best to unravel the usual crisp attack of the Huskies at the outset. Northeastern found itself on top only 1-0 at the end of the first, thanks mainly to some spirited back-checking and occasional offense by Harvard...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Huskies Stop Icewomen, 4-0 In Women's Beanpot Opener | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

...former Dean McGeorge Bundy presented the Faculty with his proposed tutorial legislation back in 1958, he warned his audience not to "underestimate the value of the tutorial program." His audience apparently paid scant attention, because last week Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, found himself before the Faculty repeating the same exhortation to what he hopes will prove a more attentive group...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Once More With Feeling | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

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