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...race matters at Harvard. Race also matters at Princeton and elsewhere. But people of color—students and workers—do not have the luxury and privilege to simply pack up and leave their schools or jobs whenever they encounter racial discomfort. I would hope that our esteemed professors would be sensitive to the fact that, for most people of color, life is not a china shop...
...clear from the same documents that discipline and morale at the lab in the early 1990s were a mess. USAMRIID at the time was roiled by alleged racial and sexual harassment, factions warring over the lab's leadership, accusations of incompetence and even theft of research. One particularly nasty clique formed a "Camel Club," whose symbol was a toy camel outfitted with outsize sex organs and whose members wrote lewd limericks mocking co-workers and sponsored notorious hot-tub parties. In short, USAMRIID had become a breeding ground of resentment and hateful high jinks...
Third, there is the disturbing racial and ethnic breakdown of low-wage labor at Harvard. Based on the HCECP’s findings, we now know that 73 percent of workers who do not earn a living wage are people of color—and this percentage has increased steadily over the course of the last decade. Yet during the 1990s, thanks in part to the leadership of former President Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard simultaneously affirmed its commitment to, among other things, affirmative action, faculty and student diversity and the creation of the finest Afro-American Studies department...
According to D’Alessandro, because the Civil Rights Project report shows educational benefits to racial diversity at the high school, the new plan for including income in elementary school choice will increase diversity and improve education at the elementary level...
...least one researcher says there is no connection between the report, which studied only racial and ethnic diversity, and the new income-based elementary school plan...