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...community advisory was sent out by the administration, and for a couple of days after the incident, Farid wore hoodies to hide the head scarf, or hijab, she wears. Although recent attacks against Muslims on the Harvard campus have not been directly perpetrated by students, Islamophobia exists in less overt forms at Harvard. Many Muslim students have experienced moments when they said they have felt surprised or offended by others’ assumptions about followers of Islam. A DOUBLE STANDARDA few months after Farid’s encounter, The Harvard Salient published the now-famous anti-Islamic Danish cartoons. Associate...
...idea, says R.J. Cutler (30 Days), an executive producer of the show along with rapper Ice Cube and Matt Alvarez (both of Barbershop), was to survey the color lines in a country that has largely shed overt racism. For six weeks a black family from Atlanta (Brian and Renee Sparks and their son Nick) and a white family from Santa Monica, Calif. (Carmen Wurgel, Bruno Marcotulli and daughter Rose), went out into society as members of the opposite race and spent their downtime, sans makeup, sharing a house...
...queer students who attended the dance could have been the victim. It is simply unfathomable how Hastrup can label this crime as an isolated occurrence that “was so unrelated to homophobia on campus.” Any hate crime on campus is absolutely relevant to the overt and subtle forms of campus discrimination that affect minority students...
...upheld, the Solomon Amendment will mean an end to the most overt gestures of animosity between Harvard and the military. It will not mean that the animosity itself—which has been so damaging to the national interest—will disappear. Reconciliation will be no easy task, but we should try. Harvard can use military recruiters’ presence on campus to spark two important discussions: first, on the military’s history and role; second, on the acceptance of homosexuals in the armed services. Both of these discussions should occur with mutual respect (and perhaps Congress...
...which the maelstrom of press has swooned. At the story’s center is the love of Ennis and Jack, but it’s a romance with its fair share of grime. Their very first sex scene is as bewildering for its rather sudden advent as its overt hostility. The two know to keep it hush hush: “It’s nobody’s business but ours,” says Jack. When the summer ends, the two go home: Jack to rodeo riding in Texas and Ennis to his fianc?...