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...Asian students against the Asian American Association. We would like to thank Ahn for her excellent reporting and her accurate representation of our purpose. Still, we believe we should tell the Harvard community, both Asians and non-Asians alike, why we have decided to criticize the new leadership of AAA...
...unexpected and unprecedented show of political bravado, the leadership of AAA committed the organization to strong positions and demands without consulting the members of the organization. By fist of the officers, AAA has sponsored the public condemnation of "the erroneous and racist" sentiments expressed by Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., issued demands for the development of an ethnic studies requirement under the core curriculum, and called for an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism" at Harvard, among other things. We consider these actions--which were initiated and executed with neither general deliberation nor a democratic vote--unrepresentative...
Furthermore, AAA's newly-elected co-presidents, Joan Cheng '95 and Haewon Hwang '95, write in their latest official newsletter that AAA "cannot just claim to represent the voice of Asian Americans" but that "our voice must be heard. "We were shocked to read this, especially when very member of the new AAA steering committee was elected by less than four percent of the Asian population at Harvard College. Neither do we believe there is just one Asian American voice. Thus it baffles us how any of the officers of AAA can claim to have the prerogative of making political...
...last AAA general meeting, we proposed an amendment to the AAA constitution requiring the steering committee to refer all political issues to the general membership for discussion and a formal vote. Specifically, our amendment requires every political motion to receive a two-thirds majority of a quorum of two-thirds of AAA's general membership in order to pass as an "official position" of AAA. We were reasonable enough, moreover, to include an "emergency powers" clause that grants the steering committee the discretion to issue public statements on behalf of AAA in response to news-breaking events--like Mans-field...
...presidents said they will try to decide whether they will support the creation of an umbrella organization per se, and if so whether that organization will be the Asian American Association (AAA) or the recently proposed Alliance of Asian Organizations...