Word: incidentally
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Leverett students responded mainly with revulsion, shock and disappointment, Lucas and officials said last week. "The students have shared concerns expressed in the letter," said Senior Tutor Elizabeth B. Keeney. "There has been a positive response to the letter, and people are using the incident constructively."
An incident of racial harassment targeted against a Leverett student has prompted outrage in the house and a statement from the master calling such acts "inacceptable" and threatening to students' individuality.
Lucas, who issued an open letter denouncing the incident in the campus press, said last week he suspected a house resident was responsible.
Assistant Dean for Minority and Race Relations Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, with whom Lucas initially discussed the incident, said. "The master and senior tutor of the house are reacting very well in treating this as a serious incident. I think that the fact that it happened at this time of AWARE...
"The people who got the shit were Cambridge students. I felt very torn during the incident," says Holdt. "In their minds, they [the Harvard students] are these rich, snobby students in their town. I think those impressions will always exist."