Comments on: Terror on the Harvard Quad http://mp285.com/2007/05/terror-on-the-harvard-quad/ worldwide. webbed feats. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:47:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kate http://mp285.com/2007/05/terror-on-the-harvard-quad/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Kate Tue, 22 May 2007 14:32:19 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/terror-on-the-harvard-quad/#comment-14 Wow. This stuff happened all the time at Trinity College last year. Campus "Safety" was regularly called to report "members of the community" being on campus. "Members of the community" was, of course, code for Black and Latino men, and their very presence on campus was cause for great alarm amongst the largely white student population. Black students were accosted by "security" in their own dorms, their HOMES, where they most assuredly belonged. And yet these students were thought to permanently and always-already NOT belong. One student took to wearing a Tshirt that loudly proclaimed "I am a student." "Community members" were increasingly barred from campus by tightening rules on ids and setting up new "security measures" at the library. It was never clear if there was an actual problem that called for a solution. But I suppose in our racist society, the very presence of people of color is sometimes criminal. Trinity isn't Harvard, so these stories remained largely local. But I'd bet the Harvard experience is pretty widely had on college campuses across the country. Wow. This stuff happened all the time at Trinity College last year. Campus “Safety” was regularly called to report “members of the community” being on campus. “Members of the community” was, of course, code for Black and Latino men, and their very presence on campus was cause for great alarm amongst the largely white student population. Black students were accosted by “security” in their own dorms, their HOMES, where they most assuredly belonged. And yet these students were thought to permanently and always-already NOT belong.

One student took to wearing a Tshirt that loudly proclaimed “I am a student.”

“Community members” were increasingly barred from campus by tightening rules on ids and setting up new “security measures” at the library. It was never clear if there was an actual problem that called for a solution. But I suppose in our racist society, the very presence of people of color is sometimes criminal.

Trinity isn’t Harvard, so these stories remained largely local. But I’d bet the Harvard experience is pretty widely had on college campuses across the country.

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