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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NIGGER" is a word we don't hear very often. Occassionally it is whispered as part of an insensitive joke. We read it in the pages of Twain's Huckleberry Finn as a solemn reminder of a past we are too embarrassed to remember. It is a harsh and frightening word that we would much rather forget. Moreover, in the year that Rev. Jesse Jackson became a legitimate political figure in the eyes of most Americans, hearing the word reminds us of how easy it is for us to ignore the racial discrimination that continues to persist in this nation...
LAST week, I was acting the part of the noble student activist, doing my small part to help end apartheid in South Africa. As part of a series of errands I needed to run for Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, I tried to take a cab into South Boston. Insensitive to the fact that racial tensions still run high in the section of Boston made infamous by its violent anti-busing protests of the 1970s, I gave the address to my cab driver, who was Black...
...clear that blatant racial discrimination--even here at Harvard, a supposed bastion of tolerance and free-thinking--has not been eliminated. Part of the reason is that while we have been praising ourselves for the civil rights successes of the past 20 years, we have ignored the problems that persist...
...meeting, which brought together the student and faculty dean search committees, was part of the process to filter Law School concerns to President Bok, who is ultimately responsible for appointing the new dean...
...never talk about safe sex. I don't know what that is. I talk about safer sex and the need to have condoms," she said. "I don't want to see AIDS education separate. I want to see it as part of sex education in general. And I want to see more money appropriated for AIDS research...