Miranda K. Lippold-johnson

A Conundrum at Cambridge Common

This sign in Cambridge Common demands a bit more interpretation than its less enigmatic counterparts.

July 2009

JULY 2009: The arrest of Prof. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. by a Cambridge police officer becomes the cause of a national debate on racial profiling.

Roommates Medha-Kameswari Gargeya ’14 and Esther Chung ’14 pose in their bedroom.

These freshman roommates in Weld all hail from different parts of the Western Hemisphere. Between the six of them, they speak at least seven different languages.

Esther Chung '14, Medha-Kameswari Gargeya ’14, Meghan Brooks ’14, and Sheyda Aboii ’14 reflect on their rooming assignments.

Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. reads from his memoir, Colored People, in Sanders Theatre. Gates’ arrest by a Cambridge Police officer on Jul. 16, 2009 became the cause of a national debate on racial profiling.