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...newly adopted measures follow a report examining the Harvard University Police Department’s practices released in April that recommended a series of policy changes to “achieve the shared goal of a welcoming, safe, and open environment.” Following an incident of alleged racial profiling last August, University President Drew G. Faust charged an independent, six-member committee with scrutinizing the diversity training and recruitment efforts of the Harvard police force. In the weeks before the announcement, black student and faculty leaders had been pushing for the University to address what they viewed...
Opening the Racial Floodgates...
...honeymooned here in 1934). "That is why I like it here," Gates told TIME after returning from his White House beer summit with Obama and Sergeant James Crowley, the Cambridge, Mass., police officer whose altercation with Gates sparked a summer's worth of agitated headlines. "To me, it's racial heaven." (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
Gates attributes the island's racial accord to the fact that Martha's Vineyard is "one of the oldest, if not the oldest, places in America where African Americans can own beachfront property." Residents also never got too hung up on the issue of racially integrated beaches, which elsewhere had offended the propriety of some whites. (See pictures of world leaders on vacation...
Fundamentally researchers do not dispute the fact that biology - namely genetics - helps determine individual health outcomes. But the practice of categorizing patients by race has yet to further the discovery of significant gene mutations. What's more, say critics, it promotes racial thinking while dismissing the more germane issue of socioeconomics. Indeed, Albain and her coauthors used a single, widely disputed metric in their study - patients' zip codes linked to census tract data - to "adjust" for socioeconomic status. Yet researchers know that people living within one zip code can include the city's wealthiest and poorest residents. And even...