Word: races
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After Maine turned the ball over, Healey brought the ball back down to the Crimson perimeter and in a repeat performance, sank another three-pointer, putting Harvard back in the race and forcing Maine to call time out with 1:27 left on the clock...
House resident Lamonte Lucas '91, a former member of the College's race relations advisory committee and former committee chair for the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, reported that on November 29 he discovered a lost computer disk on his doorstep with a note reading, "NIGGER". The disk's contents were damaged or erased, he said...
Assistant Dean for Minority and Race Relations Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, with whom Lucas initially discussed the incident, said. "The master and senior tutor of the house are reacting very well in treating this as a serious incident. I think that the fact that it happened at this time of AWARE [Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism] reinforces the idea that we need to address these issues and that the problem of college racism is a real issue...
...effective, student pressure should take new, more exciting forms. A one-day boycott of classes taught by white men would raise awareness. So would encouraging students to sit in on classes taught by minorities and women for a day. These actions would ensure that the issues of race and gender are firmly set in the minds of the individuals who do the actual hiring...
...sooner the better, some might think. The '50s and '60s landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than...