Amid Harvard protests, school president speaks up for inclusion

The Boston Globe reports:

Harvard students stood up for racial justice Thursday in solidarity with campuses across the country, as President Drew Faust said it is “well beyond time” for the school to ensure it is an open and accepting community.

“We will not all always agree on the best ways forward. But we owe it to one another to shape an environment in which every one of us is fully included,” Faust wrote in the letter to Harvard students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

About 100 graduate students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health demonstrated on their campus in the Longwood medical area. Dressed in black, students walked out of class to a “Blackout” rally in support of students at the University of Missouri and Harvard Law School, where controversy also erupted Thursday when students discovered that strips of tape had been placed across photographs of black professors outside of a lecture hall.

On Wednesday, dozens of Harvard students gathered in the Science Center Plaza and marched to Porter Square, where they joined with demonstrators from Tufts University.

Taken together, the demonstrations and Faust’s comments elevated the discussion of race on the Cambridge campus.

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