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Included in the conference will be eight workshops on issues ranging from Third World unity to college admission quotas for Asian-Americans. Irene Shih '90, a former AAA representative to ECASU, said the Harvard group will conduct a two-hour workshop, entitled "Asian-American/Ethnic-American Studies," on the need to represent varied ethnicities in college curricula...
About a dozen members of the Asian-American Association (AAA) will join students from more than 50 other schools next month at Cornell University for the tenth annual college conference on the contributions of Asians to American society...
According to Shih, the AAA-sponsored workshop will concentrate one three areas: benefits of courses that address ethnic American issues, integration of ethnic topics into a broader historical context for elementary and high school textbooks, and the structure of an Ethnic American Studies college curriculum...
...Several AAA students have voiced their desire for an Ethnic American Studies department at Harvard. But such a department is only a long-range goal, in part because of a dearth of Harvard faculty knowledgeable about Asian-Americans. Shih said...
Dorothee E. Benz '86, executive director of AAA, said her organization has been planning HARVAID for a year and a half. The performers "are people who have been very committed, not just to get together to sing and do a benefit, but because they really are passionately committed to the freedom struggle in South Africa," Benz said...