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...read Kit Troyer's review of "Black Rain," I learned that this tradition continues. It was the height of irony to find that in the same review of a movie denounced for "reinforc[ing] some long-standing racial stereotypes," the author describes one character as a "Japanese mafioso." Does the Editorial Board (which offered no disclaimer) express the belief that criminals worldwide owe their existence to an illicit network originating on Sicily at the turn of this century? Or is your belief that Italians are in general archetypal criminals...
...criminal organization displays the very kind of bias your review purports to loathe. It perpetuates the insulting and degrading view of Italian-Americans as godfathers and hit-men. And while I do not deny that a small minority of Italians belonged to violent criminals organizations, I challenge Mr. Troyer to name one ethnic group which has not produced a criminal...
...must classify by ethnicity, The New York Times reported recently that some of the most active criminal networks in New York involve immigrants from South America, Central America, and the Soviet Union. Italians did not merit mention on the list. Then what but prejudice could have prompted Mr. Troyer to use an Italian word for "mobster" where no ethnic designation was appropriate...
...Laurie M. Grossman '89 Jeffrey S. Nordhaus '89 James E. Schwartz '88 Editorial Editor: Laurie M. Grossman '89 Features Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Photo Editor: Terri R.R. Roopnaraine Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Julio R. Varela '90 Business Editor: Amy J. Merritt '90 Copy Editor: Thomas C. Troyer...
...your page one article on the proposal of "honoring Confederates" in Memorial Hall (March 21, 1988), your writer, Mr. Troyer, cites "a proposal by an emeritus professor to add the names of Harvard's Confederate dead to the celebrated transept at Memorial Hall." As the emeritus professor whom Mr. Troyer consulted, let me correct him by saying that I have never urged commemorating the Harvard Confederate dead in the transept, properly consecrated to Harvard's Union dead. If, as was done in the Memorial Church for Harvard's German dead in World Wars I and II, the names of some...