As the tirade of students crying foul over my letter commences, allow me to say two things. No. 1: I have learned my lesson. No. 2: I have no plans to ever write or read this paper again, from the day I graduate, until my last days at Harvard and beyond. LaKeisha Wolf wrote a stirring editorial the Friday before my letter ran. She was right on the money. Wolf poignantly pointed out how the Collegian blatantly and intentionally misrepresented the intent of the entire event, placing the efforts of the African-American students way out of the intended context. "And this is definitely not the first mistake the Collegian has made in this particular area," Wolf wrote.

How do I know this to be true? Because 148 key words were omitted from my letter to the editor that ran in Monday's paper. The entire context was butchered out of the text, leaving the entire letter in ruins. The point of the letter was to express my anger over an incident that happened during the campus assault crisis. I heard a white female student, clearly within earshot expressing her belief that the residence halls should be segregated. The fact that the apathy and attitude towards blacks on this campus doesn't really bother me was also omitted.

I made it clear that preparing for Harvard law school next year was the thing that matters most to me, not the ridiculous behavior I observe. The statement regarding being an athletic male was totally taken out of context! I am an athletic black male, 7.3 percent body fat and over 6 feet tall. I have been accosted and mistaken for a football player often by drunken white students who are upset over a Penn State loss. That is the context that the original article was written in. But the substance of my letter, that would have allowed it to make sense, was systematically removed from the article that ran.

So before you "hate the player," . . . "hate the game." Because the things that did make it to print do happen. And if you can convince the Collegian to give you a copy of the unedited letter, you would understand what the message was.

Black Caucus was correct to state the frustration shared by all of us, when we put forth the effort to contribute, only to have our efforts thwarted, likely because of our race.