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...Frank E. Pacheco '99, vice-chair of the Adams House Committee, said the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) evacuated the Adams House dining hall in response to a fire alarm that was triggered in the Adams A-entryway...
...Pacheco said police arrived on the scene around 12:15 a.m. When they got there, he said, they noticed that the number of people in the dining hall far exceeded its legal maximum capacity of 350, and began trying to evacuate the room for fire hazard reasons...
...eyes, "there is nothing inherently outrageous in the concept of 'white unity' as your head-line seems to imply." Facing evil, Pacheco is a man-of-the-middle...
Nothing inherently outrageous about white supremacy? Pacheco seems to reach this conclusion by simple-mindedly equating "white unity" patterns with usual ethnic group reinforcing patterns among different American cultural groups, such as Irish, Italians, Jews, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics...
...short, there was a scary layer of cultural ignorance underlying Pacheco's letter. The kind of cultural ignorance about his own American society that leads him to talk in almost jocular terms about the white supremacist and anti-Semitic prone World Church of the Creator-a core Christian identity group-as if it were just some silly old bunch or "group of horrible people." -Martin Kilson, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government