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"He wasn't the first prostitute I had used," Frank said. "I just couldn't live that way anymore. I was tired of looking over my shoulder. I met Herb [Moses] about that time." Frank shares a house in Washington with Moses.
Henry C. Moses, dean of first-year students, could have played it safe in his welcome address to first-year students and their parents. He could have talked about maturity, responsibility, change or some other inane theme which would cause everyone to nod and nobody to care.
Instead, Moses chose to speak out for the rights of minority students. He defended the existence of minority student organizations, and urged mutual acceptance of ethnic identity, saying "Tolerance is too passive."
At most, Moses's speech was an important signal that issues of racial significance will be addressed seriously by the administration this semester. If nothing else, the speech revealed that creativity lives in the minds of some administrators.
This is the same article that speaks of Mark Eaton and Manute Bol. Ignoring Michael Jordan's impact in the 1980s is like ignoring Moses' brief stroll across the Red Sea. We're talking biblical proportions here, folks.