'Dictionary of college terms' racist, sexist
Dear Editors,
Jason Gordon's "concise dictionary of terms every Hopkins student needs to know" (Newsletter, 9/5/02) is an amazingly candid display of one male's racist and sexist (and entirely juvenile) worldview. Is this the kind of student JHU can take pride in producing? For the supposed benefit of freshman, he describes the decent, working-class community around Greenmount--which, by the way, is an AVENUE, not a neighborhood--as a warzone filled with crack heads and "lots of sketchy folks"; he ridicules the (predominantly African American) staff of Royal Farms, who, in case he forgot, are there 24-7; and he defines the upper and lower quads, as well as programs such as IR, strictly according to the number of women one (male) is likely to be able to meet in those places. If I were a woman or a person of color, and an incoming freshman, I would take this as a very bad sign of what kind of treatment to expect during my four years at Hopkins.
William Scott
JHU Humanities Center
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