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Lewis—now the director of admissions for the College—recently declined to comment on the incident, as did Rosovsky.
Since the 1982 incident, Walcott has returned to Harvard’s campus twice. In 2003, he gave a reading of his works at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of African-American history and culture. In 2005, Walcott came...
As evidenced by accusations of hyper-sensitivity and race-baiting following the Quad incident, it seems as though the general attitude has not been to learn from our country’s racist past, but to disengage from it. Underlying the refusal to acknowledge the painful reality of racism is...
Whether or not the Quad residents who called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) were motivated by subconscious racism, the incident provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on continuing problems with race-relations and the experience of minorities at Harvard.
Though Harvard has made much progress considering its white-dominated past, concerns of the stigmatizing of minority groups raised in the aftermath of the Quad incident suggest that Harvard still has work to do in building a fully cohesive and racially harmonious community.