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...police?” That is a fair question, and it behooves us to take it seriously. (In my 37 years at Harvard, five of them living at Radcliffe, I have never seen “non-Harvard African-Americans” assembled in large numbers on the Radcliffe Quad engaged in recreational activities...
...Quad incident has sparked letters from a number of African-American alumni writing on the Black Alumni Network list serve under the heading, “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”A number of students and their parents have stated to me that policemen demanding identification cards from African-American students is reminiscent of the South African apartheid era, when blacks were routinely forced to show their ID cards to white police when they were thought to be “out of place.” Many of our Harvard Police...
...furor over the incident is a case of hypersensitivity on all sides: Quad residents were unnecessarily territorial and were too quick filing a noise complaint—though during reading period it's tough to blame them—and the organizations hosting the event, the Association of Black Harvard Women and the Black Men’s Forum, were too hasty to use the R-word to describe the police's being called...
None of this is to say that racism isn't a problem at Harvard. But if there is something positive to emerge from the Quad lawn incident, it is the “I Am Harvard” campaign. Launched at Primal Scream last Wednesday night, the campaign, lead primarily by black students, intends to address issues of race and belonging on this campus...
...fact, one does injustice to the South African nightmare when one compares the Quad incident to a time when “white ambulances” refused to aid injured black South Africans and when blacks were prohibited from attending “white churches.” A noise complaint in the middle of Reading Period is absolutely not commensurate to policies under which blacks and whites were not allowed to marry one another, not even have interracial sexual relations. Even if, as Counter asserts, Harvard is a “racist community...