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...Wednesday night, after stressing that the “Quad incident?? was only an indicator of deeper race-relations problems, Barnhill called on those present to share tales of personal encounters with racism at Harvard. In response, several male black students told stories of not being able hail a cab, or being asked to show their ID cards by officers despite wearing Harvard sweatshirts. After each tale, the crowd chanted “I Am Harvard” as an affirmation of their rightful presence at the University...
...eyes from the awfulness of Jerry Springer during its prime in the late 1990s to a campaign against violent video games to the famed censorship crusade of former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell in the aftermath of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “incident?? three years ago to decrying “Heroes,” “Lost,” and “Prison Break...
Students said that while the incident??and the ensuing advisory—became a subject of several messages over house e-mail lists, they didn’t feel as if the campus is any more dangerous...
More importantly, however, Coulter (and her faithful minions) gave LGBT organizations a golden opportunity, and they squandered it. There are few occasions when homophobic speech comes from a source that is indisputably further from the mainstream than these organizations themselves. This “incident?? (if you can even call it that) had all the makings of one of those occasions. Yet the HRC and GLAAD, in taking Coulter seriously, only diminished their own respectability...
Memories of the incident??and of the victim, Galo Garcia III ’05—have faded, but those students and observers close to the trial wonder how a case with such impetus fizzled so quickly...