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...Handbook on Race Relations," one student group, clumsily named Students at Harvard and Radcliffe Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (SHARE), says its workshops "are designed to help participants examine their own backgrounds, identify stereotypes, and understand the damaging behaviors and interactions which can result from those assumptions...
...last year's Commencement address, recently republished in the "Handbook," Rudenstine correctly argued that historical experience suggests a monocultural community is impossible: "If we look closely at our larger American society (and if we are candid with ourselves), we cannot fail to notice that vast segments of our population live, socialize and even work with people who have racial, religious or cultural characteristics very similar...
...more we talk of "promoting cultural appreciation" and identifying our "symbolic and oppositional identities," as the "Handbook" does, the more we will feel that our fragmentation is natural. And the less we engage with each other in political settings, ready to compromise and work together to make Harvard better...
...capitulate to tokenist demands. We can only guess, and hope, that Epps' alleged penchant for speaking in foreign languages comes from an earnest, if slightly misguided, attempt to make minority students feel comfortable. But we can say that the two Epps initiatives the AAA presidents so confidently disparage, the handbook and the audit, are at least genuine attempts to address this campus's race relations problems--attempts that were much rarer before Epps took the race relations helm in September...
...true that the race relations handbook was unimpressive: a kind of popcorn sampling of resources and officials that could do little to delve into the real roots of campus tensions. But that, perhaps, was Epps' intent. His race relations audit, conducted by the Harvard Negotiation Project, was an odd idea that also did not yield an ideal solution, but represented a sincere effort to solve the problem. So did some of Epps' other initiatives: the race retreat last fall, and the changes he instituted in Orientation Week...