In the center of the placemat are what it calls “tips for talking to families,” with recommendations such as “Listen mindfully before formulating a thoughtful response” and “Breathe.”

The placemats are endorsed by Harvard administrators. The product of a collaboration between the College’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Freshman Dean’s Office, the placemats first appeared in Annenberg last week. Jasmine M. Waddell, the freshman resident dean for Elm Yard, described the placemats’ goal as giving freshmen strategies for discussing those issues with their families over winter break.

“This is a way to say, ‘You’ve been exposed to a lot of different ideas, and particularly in this moment when there’s a lot of discussion about various topics, you’re going to go home and you may or may not be able to speak the same language,’” Waddell said. “It’s not that you have to believe in what’s on the placemat, but it gives you some tools to be able to have productive conversations.”

Waddell added that the Freshman Dean’s Office decided against emailing the placemats directly to students, instead installing them in Annenberg without comment as a piece of “passive programming.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/12/16/placements-race-discussions-released/

Pic:

https://i.imgur.com/fAso8Aa.jpg

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29394158)

http://i.imgur.com/ipEZqV9.png

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29400922)

liberalism is a serious mental illness. somebody please get these shitlibs the help they desperately need.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29396874)

it would be nice if shitlibs actually did this.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29396927)

Why the fuck is Harvard taking a position on refugees and mistakes/self-defense by cops?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29397694)

ljl the kids these days are PUSSIES compared to the 60s radicals, and those were turned into the ultimate corporate bootlickers in the 80s. if anything, history has shown us that the more radical a generation the more slimy and corporatist it becomes once it hits child-rearing age.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29401541)

http://i.imgur.com/ipEZqV9.png

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29400920)

Xo Nick Christiakis

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29400992)

Contact Information. Email: elm-yard-dean@fas.harvard.edu

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29401232)

Also LOL FCKNG LOL at that Tamir Rice simplification and Syrian refugee shit when Boston bombers were asylum seekers fleeing Chechenya

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3072244&forum_id=2#29401552)