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Haewon Hwang '95 co-president of AAA, says she does not believe being female has an impact on achieving a position of leadership in any of the Asian campus organizations. "Just by looking around at the sister organizations [of AAA], the majority of executive positions are filled by women," she says...
...issue never received a full hashing-out on the editorial pages of campus publications, primarily because representatives of at least four Asian student groups disagreed with the AAA leaders. Besides Cheng and Hwang leveled the insensitivity charge during exam period, a political doldrum...
What have minority organizations done wrong? It's worth wondering whether the relative youth of the AAA leaders--both are sophomores--contributed to the clumsiness of the Epps episode. The early flash of interest in identity that Harvard produces in its young often fades after a year or two, and this erosion of involvement may reduce the ability of minority organizations to sell issues in the community at large...
Counter allegedly encouraged the co-chairs of the Asian American Association (AAA) to write a letter to The Crimson criticizing Epps in his role as Race Czar, according to the authors of the letter. "Anyone working at race relations is expected to follow professional codes of conduct which includes direct discus- sion with one's collegues," Epps says. "It should not include working through students to send a message...
What really needs to be addressed is the institutional structure that encourages eggheads to act up. For example, the AAA letter was remarkably eggheaded--we could editorialize for weeks about this (and have). But the more interesting issue is what inspired the AAA presidents to voice their eggheaded thoughts...