Word: racism
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Johnson's biggest failing was probably with race relations on campus. He did nothing about the harassment of Black students by police officers, the most pressing issue facing the department today. The accusations of racism after the police intervened at the Adams House rap concert a few weeks ago is only the most recent occurrence of minority students feeling they receive prejudiced treatment from police...
Much more serious, though, were the events surrounding last year's arrest of Inati Ntshanga '95 for trespassing after being in the basement of Matthews without his Harvard ID. Johnson's denial of any racism in the incident and failure to discipline the officers and act forcefully in the matter contributed to the fiasco...
...student inclusion in search processes again, except to say the students are the ones most affected by the new chief--both for good and for bad--and should have a say. It would be particularly appalling if minority student groups whose members have been victims of the department's racism in the past were not consulted...
...redressing ancient wrongs, white men are routinely shoved aside to make room for less qualified women and minorities. These favored ones have no problems at all-except for that niggling worry that their colleagues see them as underqualified "affirmative-action babies.'' Maybe there was once an evil called racism in this charmed place-30 or 300 years ago, that is-but it's been replaced by affirmative action...
President Clinton has sensibly yielded to the American people and agreed to review the Federal government's catalogue of affirmative action programs. We hope Congress and the President will finally put the injustice of legalized racism to rest...