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...AWARE Week begins, marking the College's major effort at addressing racism on campus and improving race relations. After a promising start, the week of activities--often numbering several panel discussions a day--loses momentum. In the end, activities addressing "racism among the well-intentioned" are questioned about their success at reaching those at whom they are targeted...
...more personal level, students confronted the consequences of another type of diversity for which Harvard so often congratulates itself. Masters this year requested a more random system of assigning students to the houses to avoid what they said was growing segregation by extracurricular or academic interest. The controversial plan foundered, but Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 plans to reintroduce it this fall in different form...
Joanne B. Ciulla, a visiting scholar at Oxford University specializing in ethics and a former post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, says she often writes her own studies in order to compensate for the short supply of Harvard ethics cases...
...School's grading system gives as much weight to class participation as to exams, discouraging reticence while rewarding those who contribute to class discussions. As a result, students say they often address the ethical elements of a case study only in last-ditch attempts--called "chip shots" in B-School parlance--to offer a relevant comment before class time elapses...
...despite these efforts, students say discussion of ethics outside the module often fails to transcend token references...