Word: afros
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...Latin. Our commitment does not end there. Black Greeks are also known for their involvement in campus politics and activities. Members of Black fraternities and sororities include the president of the Freshman Black Table, the organizer of the intercollegiate ethnic conference earlier this year, the director of the Afro-American cultural center, and others who have devoted extensive amounts of time to the programs of Phillips Brooks House...
While our now defunct Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--published for several years--shared Outlook's interest in the many-sided issues of ethnic selfidentity, it extended its focus much farther afield, to national political and social concerns facing Afro-Americans. I hope further editions of Outlook do likewise. I did sense a tendency in the current Outlook to over-indulge selfidentity concerns--a tendency that leads ultimately to an intellectually stultifying narcissism...
...example of Black students' new efforts is the minority reunion itself. In 1985, the BSA, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women and the Afro-American Cultural Center planned the first minority alumni weekend. It took nearly a year to plan, says Anne C. Bailey '86, one of the organizers, "but by the time the weekend rolled around there was a lot of administration support." The reunion is now held every other year...
Judith Jackson '87 said she was discouraged from taking courses in Afro-American Studies because the courses were "not challenging enough...
...respond? "I took Afro-Am courses anyway," she said...