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...students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation, who serve as a kind of racial conscience in our community, have worked assiduously to reduce the number of “racial” incidents at Harvard and to improve the racial climate through programs on ethnocultural knowledge, awareness, and tolerance. Much of our work is behind the scenes and goes unnoticed by the larger community so that students are not diverted from their College academic and social experience by the onerous distraction and burden of racial discrimination. For instance, when issues of racial profiling by HUPD were raised in the past...
...Harvard Foundation’s record speaks for itself. It has enabled the Harvard community to overcome many racial and ethnic conflicts over the years, and we continue to do so. It has sponsored approximately 150 programs and projects during the 2006-2007 academic year that were intended to promote interracial, inter-religious and cultural understanding...
...place.” Many of our Harvard Police are well-trained and friendly professionals who are qualified to work in an academic community with students of different backgrounds. Nevertheless, some minority students and faculty feel that some HUPD officers could be more aware of cultural, racial and religious sensitivities on campus...
...Foundation’s faculty advisers and student members had been delighted that we had made it through the academic year without any publicly divisive racial conflict. We had, however, spoken too soon, as the Quad incident occurred late in the year. Furthermore, many articles and comments about what happened shifted the focus of the discussion from the deplorable nature of the Quad incident to quotes attributed to me, which in the eyes of some served to exacerbate racial and religious tensions on campus...
...improved police-student relations. I will also urge the faculty advisory committee of the Harvard Foundation to support the “I am Harvard” campaign as a campus-wide effort to raise the level of awareness of all members of the Harvard community about the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity of Harvard’s present demographic, and the University’s appreciation of that valued diversity...