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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Lucas, who issued an open letter denouncing the incident in the campus press, said last week he suspected a house resident was responsible...
Leverett Master John E. Dowling '57, in a letter sent to all house members, condemned the action and urged students to confront issues of racial diversity...
...When any of us is attacked for being different, each of us is hurt," Dowling wrote in the letter. "Attacks like these are not simply against some abstract rule. They make each of us afraid to reveal our individuality and that hurts the house as its strongest point...
Other unexpected triumphs have attended the revolution. Last Tuesday two Civic Forum representatives delivered a letter to the Soviet embassy asking the Supreme Soviet to disavow the 1968 invasion. The two were assured the letter would be telexed to Moscow promptly. "We are very happy with the way events are going," embassy counselor Vasili Filipov told them. "Especially that there is no bloodshed, because we feared bloodshed." How times have changed...