Word: kirkland
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...Kirkland resident says that support for rugby from both the administration and undergraduates has grown over the years he's been here...
During Nelson's tenure as head of BSA, she guided the organization through two of Harvard's most dramatic recent controversies: the protests to push for a stronger Afro-American Studies Department and the debate over a Confederate flag hung by a Kirkland House student...
Nelson's actions during the debate over the Confederate flag last year were the best example of how she has used her position of authority both to teach student and change Harvard. Last winter, a white student in Kirkland House placed a Confederate flag in her window. After a few days of protest against the flag, another white protest against the flag, another white student in Cabot House put a flag in his window. A Black student in Cabot then placed a swastika in her window...
Nelson and Daniel J. Libenson '92, chair of Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel, wrote a joint letter to The Crimson condemning the flags. The BSA, led by Nelson, and other groups conducted a series of eat-ins in Kirkland an Cabot Houses in an effort to explain to other students why the flags were painful and hateful to Blacks and Jews. At the same time Nelson led the eat-ins, she met with administrators and tried to persuade them to use the University's racial harassment guidelines to force the students to remove the Confederate flags...
Neumann never won an Ivy title, beat Yale as a starter or got a call to tryout for the pros. But ask the Kirkland senior about his carrer at Harvard and he's all smiles and good cheer...