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...controversial record is only one example of the larger race relations issues that have challenged this campus for years. The University, both by launching the HUPD review committee and by taking other meaningful steps—including, for instance, requiring incoming freshmen to complete readings on racial sensitivity??now seems to be working to solve Harvard’s race problems in a concerted and dedicated manner. The University’s commendable effort should surely garner the support and active engagement of all members of the Harvard community...
...hiding behind a pretty-sounding facial meaning. Such terms have blossomed into wide, unexamined usage at Harvard in our times, and my classmates can be thankful they are graduating from this realm of self-contradicting doublespeak: Where “dialogue” means the neutering of conversation for sensitivity??s sake, and where the premium placed on “inclusivity” forces students to trek to MIT if they wish to participate in ROTC...
...presently conceived, “respect” and “sensitivity?? are the subsidiary platitudes of this vacant multiculturalism. A real sensitivity for other cultures, however, would entail discerning differences, perhaps even more than finding common ground. People who truly respect Islam, for instance, should be able to understand and fear the signs sent by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s millennial behavior: What is not considerate of Islam is to assume that those of its adherents whose theology brooks no separation of civil and religious authority will be motivated by the same incentives that...
...crossroads in my life,” Valentine remembers. “His encouragement was very important to me.”Valentine says that Alfred, simply called ‘The Professor’ by generations of students, was “so sensitive to our sensitivity?? that he would read every student’s work to the rest of the class without saying who had written it. A VOICE OF HER OWNIn the decade after graduating from Radcliffe, Valentine married and stayed home to raise her two daughters. In 1965, she published her first book...
...from Americans abroad. Instead of blindly criticizing French culture and extolling the virtues of the USA, I have tried to blend in and adopt a Parisian attitude. I assumed when I got to Europe that—with a passing knowledge of French and a good deal of cultural sensitivity??I could fast-forward through the homesickness and adjustment anxiety which the Office of International Programs and my French program had described at length. I was wrong...