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...palpably as I walk down Mass. Ave., or to and from my dorm, because I am supposed to represent some gun-toting black monster who is out to rape or rob or kill. I have kept calm and cool even as my brow begins to sweat over accusations that somehow I was given a favored, academically undeserved admittance to this school. Astonished, I have witnessed impassioned arguments for unequal funding for predominantly black schools and vehement protests against the allegedly all-black phenomenon of welfare dependency. Racism is alive and well in America and at Harvard...
...Somehow, we must move the discussion of race to a level on which the exasperation of whites and blacks can be addressed, and some much-needed progress can be made. We must not blithely dismiss or oversimplify American history by believing that the scars of slavery were healed by the Emancipation Proclamation, or that the "I Have a Dream" speech somehow soothed three centuries of racial strife. Neither can we hold sons and daughters accountable for the sins of their mothers and fathers. We must embrace history. We must sit with our nation's sins, discuss them, debate them, transcend...
...said that there was going to be this guy coming into her life. And then Herff showed up. They linked up on a spiritual plane." Applewhite too saw the union as destiny. In junior high, Nettles had written a novel about a man who died and went to heaven. Somehow, this literary vision became proof of prophecy for Applewhite, who said he was the manuscript's ascendant hero...
...Somehow, this is not the distinction I had in mind," I said. "I don't mean to seem ungrateful. And I don't mean that I was under any illusions that a Nobel Prize was coming my way. I suppose I was wondering whether there might be some appropriate honor in between...
...here are loathe to discuss our insecurities publicly and would benefit greatly from a secure and protected environment in which to discuss questions or just voice uncertainties. Beyond the mundane and very real problems we all face, there are many who have been either a victim of or are somehow connected to traumas like date-rape, eating disorders or suicide. One would think that the peer counseling groups would be the most utilized and applauded organizations on campus...