San Jose State University offered the nation a course on healing Monday.
The timing couldn't have been better.For the first time since 1968, when SJSU's Tommie Smith and John Carlos shook the world with their black-gloved salute on the medal stand at the Summer Olympics, the university's administration has formally embraced the two men. It is reinstating the track and field program that raised Smith, Carlos and many others to Olympic caliber. The celebration Monday evoked a new level of inclusion and understanding at the institution that, for nearly a half-century, seemed not to quite get it.
