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Just as Jeremy Lin has had to deal with racist anti-Asian remarks when the basketball team plays away, some of Harvard’s visitors have had to endure insults that have ranged from xenophobic—chants of “U.S.A.” directed at a foreign squash player—to homophobic—a soccer parent yelling, “Hey number 13, you’re a faggot...
...witnessed much less severe heckling that, nonetheless, I still would have preferred been left at home. While this different, more casual brand of heckling may not be quite as politically offensive, it still reflects poorly on a fan and his community. Comments don’t have to be racist to be immature and misguided...
...things that could go wrong at a university, it may, at first, seem surprising that dishonesty is the most shattering. Next to racist comments, student violence, and faculty paychecks, Wheeler’s fraudulent background has gained more press than any recent Harvard story of late, and it illustrates that academia, more so than any other field, is built on trust. More importantly, from this trust comes our ability to forge and present our own identities...
...Rosenberg ’10, chair emerita of the feminist group Radcliffe Union of Students, refers to final clubs as “the last vestige of a dying heterosexist patriarchal racist order that has dominated Harvard for most of its nearly 400-year history...
...you’d asked me, before I arrived at Harvard, whether I were a racist, sexist, or a homophobe, I would have firmly denied all these charges. But during the past four years of my life I’ve adopted radically different views on affirmative action, I’ve realized that societal constructions such as virginity and promiscuity are outdated and harmful, and I’ve tempered previously held notions of heteronormativity. Apparently, I was a little of all three. When we immediately jump to shame into submission those who express views we deem racist...