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...recent events prove, Harvard desperately needs an organization like Kuumba. I’d like to think that if everyone spent a semester in the choir, things like the “Quad incident,” in which the police were inappropriately summoned to a Black Men’s Forum and Association of Black Harvard Women event a few weeks ago, wouldn’t happen. Being in Kuumba means confronting our differences. And despite these differences, we always manage to find common ground in the music we sing...
...Saturday afternoon of relay races, hula-hooping, and card games in the Quad was interrupted by a call to the police. What was it about this group that made their presence so jarring to the general sense of security? An open email discussion between Harvard students that referred to this group as “random,” “non-Harvard,” “young-looking” people who were “trampling the grass” indicates the answer. Despite similar events in the Quad, such as “Quad...
...evidenced by accusations of hyper-sensitivity and race-baiting following the Quad incident, it seems as though the general attitude has not been to learn from our country’s racist past, but to disengage from it. Underlying the refusal to acknowledge the painful reality of racism is the agonizing fear that racism still exists, or even worse, that one may be racist. In some cases, the aversion to racism even manifests itself in destructive ways; racism is so detestable that, in fear, we convince ourselves that it is no longer a problem...
...Harvard revealed the full scope of its plans for the property, residents’ concerns grew. They were unprepared for the inclusion of undergraduate housing in the new design: the University is considering relocating the Quad houses—Currier, Cabot, and Pforzheimer—across the Charles River to a new home in Allston. Under the plans, some Allston residents may have to relocate...
Fifty years from now, as former residents of the Quad return for their reunion, they might stand in Harvard Square ready to embark on a nostalgic journey down Garden Street to their beloved houses. Much like JFK’s tour guides almost a century before, a sympathetic student will have the unfortunate task of pointing the bewildered alumni about a mile in the opposite direction...