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Dean of the Medical School Daniel C. Tosteson '44 said in an interview yesterday that he had appointed members to a committee designed to review the sensitivity of Harvard Medical School students to racial and ethnic issues after a racial altercation at a party last Halloween...
...Tosteson said that the mandate of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Sensitivities, to be chaired by Professor of Human Behavior and Development Dr. Felton J. Earls, was to "review and analyze experiences at other institutions with these issues...
...While Tosteson said that there have not yet been enough measures to gauge the incident's impact on the Medical School community, he and administrators have come to realize that a problem exists...
Each of the academic societies, said Tosteson, has begun student and faculty seminars to devise new curricular experiences "which will raise the awareness of students and faculty alike as they bear on medicine and society...
...need to talk," he said. During the interview, Tosteson also commented on the ongoing audit of the Medical School...