Word: racism
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Accuse Harvard of racism, and you fall in a long and undistinguished lineage. When Derek Bok rejected quotas for faculty appointments in the ’80s, preferring to seek out qualified women and minority candidates instead, he was accused by critics of “racism disguised as meritocracy.” Protesters during the student takeover of University Hall in 1968 used to gesture at the portico of Widener, screaming, “Don’t those Georgian columns look like the plantation?” The columns, built in 1915, are more neo-classical revival...
...More recently, accusations of racism were leveled at the Fox Club in 2005 for its “Boxer Rebellion Party,” where medium-sized men in boxer shorts attempt to ensnare women in shiny negligees. The word you’re looking for is ridiculous. Ridiculous, not racist. Nevertheless, the Fox discontinued its party last year...
...Assaults are evident elsewhere. The ‘R’ word was used freely during the publication of “Disguide,” a self-described alternative introduction to Harvard which described a University still mired in an unholy trifecta of racism, sexism, and classism. Since the incidents cited included those targeting Muslim students, the Disguide editors do not seem to have been aware that Muslims are not, in fact, a “race...
...that racism does not exist. If “Borat” is any indication, it is alive and well. But not at Harvard. At Harvard, it has been bludgeoned to death for well over half a century, where, if it exists, it is now an ailing, sickly worm. Today, the most universal personal quality of white students at the College is guilt. Harvard’s classrooms have become her confessionals. We are nowhere, in short, near a plantation...
Just in time. As brain science becomes increasingly sophisticated, the moral and legal quandaries it poses threaten to proliferate into every part of our lives. And as the racism experiment makes clear, brain imaging has already started to do so. Even in their current state, brain scans may be able to reveal, without our consent, hidden things about who we are and what we think and feel. "I don't have a problem with looking into your brain," says Alan Leshner, former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and current head of the American Association for the Advancement...