The article in your Feb. 16 edition on the panel discussion concerning racial profiling sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. entirely misrepresents the subject at hand. Racial profiling involves more than mere traffic stops. Even a cursory glance at the literature on the subject would reveal that racial profiling concerns airport security, suspect apprehension and sundry other law enforcement procedures.
In fact, the panel members debated at length as to a definition of racial profiling, and no definition ever emerged. The Chronicle, however, decided to concoct one of its own. As such, it wrongly attributes my remarks on the subject as pertaining to traffic stops, but this was not the case. At no point in my opening comments-from which the quotation in question was culled-did I discuss automobiles. Thus, The Chronicle took my statement completely out of context and misrepresented my ideas.
It is unfortunate that The Chronicle would be so careless about a subject of such great import.
Eric Adler
Graduate student,
Department of Classical Studies
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