Word: quaded
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...encounter with the police was brief, but it did not go unnoticed. Furthermore, students found out later that there had been a full chain of emails questioning their presence on the Quad field. Those sending the emails expressed doubt that the people on the Quad were Harvard students, and expressed annoyance that their precious grass was being destroyed. As participants of the Challenge heard about these emails and began to read them, many of them felt emotions in the realm of hurt, frustration, and anger...
...suggesting that people were overtly malicious and attempted to run all of the black people off of the Quad; however, I am arguing that the skin color of the people playing in the field was a factor in how the situation was handled. No matter how liberal people in this community may believe themselves to be, there is still a great amount of latent and unconscious racism present—even at Harvard. This phenomenon is acutely noticed by black students, many of whom have previously had negative experiences due to their race...
...they are racist or that they employ racial profiling in their everyday lives. Yet this difficult and loaded question has emerged from the woodwork and has been asked, debated over e-mail, and discussed over dinner ever since Saturday. We write, of course, of the incident in which several Quad residents called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to check whether students playing on the Quad were in fact Harvard students and permitted to be there. It turned out that they were Harvard students who had explicit permission to use the space—and specifically members of the Black...
...campaign is a response to an incident on the Quad lawn that occurred on Saturday during an event organized by the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). After a string of e-mails sent over the Cabot open-list that questioned whether the participants were Harvard students, one student called University police...
...evidence of this thought process in action, we need to look no further than the response to the incident in the Quad this past weekend, when members of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) and the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) found their right to use the Quad questioned by members of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) after a group of individuals on the Cabot House list decided—no questions asked—that they did not “look like” Harvard students, and must be trampling the Quad?...