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...light of the recent Imus situation, do you feel that the black community is filled with hypocrisy? Do you still think that it's okay for black people to call their friends the n-word? -Millicent in Bronx, NY Well, I can't speak for the black community given that I am only one member of it and consider myself more a member of the American community. But I don't think it is a question of whether black people should be allowed to use the word or if Don Imus should be allowed to use the word...
...many black students are angry. In light of the events this past weekend and the experiences that many of us have had in the past, this anger is definitely justified...
...campus and the way we treat our peers. With greater awareness will come a more sociable, friendly, and open attitude toward interaction with other students, reducing the frequency of incidents like that on the Quad, racially motivated or not, and making Harvard a stronger community. This incident also sheds light on the poverty of bonds in Harvard’s social fabric and a failure in Harvard’s student support system, regardless of issues of race. The fact that students suggested HUPD as the best solution to the problem, rather than contacting a tutor or going to speak...
...light of all this, I suggest an alternative. Next year, the College Events Board should cease its coy posturing and change the name of the game to “CEB Self-Promotion.” The format would be very similar to Risk’s, except that the battles would be rhetorical, the rules prescribed by Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the communistic House element eroded to shameless personal image management. And, of course, MorganStanley will be watching...
...disturbed by the apparent contradiction between the Administration's unusual secrecy about the program and Gonzales' and Card's apparent willingness to discuss it in the open. Initially only eight members of Congress were informed of the program's existence, a strict legal requirement, and after it came to light the Administration refused repeated demands from both Republicans and Democrats for a closed briefing on the program for the entire intelligence committees of the House and Senate...