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...can’t help but feel that, on June 7th, the sound of Bill Gates' voice will represent “the sound of the train of fun coming to a halt.” We won’t be able to slip-and-slide on the Quad, play paintball on a Tuesday, or visit a brewery in the middle of the week. Unless you want be that kid that keeps coming back after graduation to pretend as though it never ended, the lifestyle of a college student becomes instantly harder to justify after June 7. Not impossible?...
Controversy erupted at a spring reading period cookout on the Quad lawn hosted by the Black Men’s Forum and the Association of Black Women at Harvard. University police, responding to a noise complaint, demanded that students show their ID cards to prove their Harvard affiliation, prompting widespread discussions of racism at Harvard...
Whether or not the Quad residents who called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) were motivated by subconscious racism, the incident provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on continuing problems with race-relations and the experience of minorities at Harvard...
Though Harvard has made much progress considering its white-dominated past, concerns of the stigmatizing of minority groups raised in the aftermath of the Quad incident suggest that Harvard still has work to do in building a fully cohesive and racially harmonious community...
Progress on that front will only happen when the campus engages in an honest and thorough dialog about race relations. While the incident at the Quad was of course deeply regrettable, it at least served the valuable function of reminding students that complacency and subconscious bias are ongoing problems at Harvard...