The Boston Globe, October 18th, 1992
It is not surprising that the first crisis faced by Michael Hooker, the president of the University of Massachusetts, has been a flare-up of racial tensions on the Amherst campus. Although the collective effort to quell those tensions should be applauded, the university must commit itself to a sustained effort to confront a legacy of campus intolerance and racial isolation. College is supposed to serve as a passage between the comforts of home and the sometimes rude awakenings of the real world. But students at the UMass-Amherst campus -- like college students across the country -- have long f...
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