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...representatives are Shannah B. Braxton'88, former BSA president; Raul Perez '90, asteering committee member of Raza, the Hispanicstudents' group; Mary Moreland '88, formerpresident of American Indians at Harvard (AIH);Michelle D. Mirchandani '91, a representative ofan Asian minority group, and Laurence Schreiber'87-'88, who is a member of Harvard-RadcliffeHillel...
...here." Just what are the views of Harvard minority students? It is an impossible question to answer. To begin with, there is the problem of defining "minority;" is it those who checked the box on their application or the ones who go to AAA, BSA, Raza, La O and AIH meetings...
When I originally agreed to speak to Nicholas P. Caron for his article "American Indians at Harvard," (11 28 84) my hope was to publicize the tenth anniversary of the organization American Indians at Harvard (AIH) and to help create a greater awareness of Native-American issues. Unfortunately, this did not happen. The article was instead a negative and greatly misleading account of Native Americans at Harvard in addition to being a misrepresentation of my views as an officer of AIH. Although Caron's original goal was to dispell stereotypes of Native Americans, in some instances he has succeeded...
There are two other technical faults I would like to point out. Flrst, Michael P. Tsosie is not the president of AIH, the president is John E. Murphy. Had Caron checked his notes carefully, he would not have made this error. Second, the statement made by Michael P. Tsosie and myself "that coming to college is to 'go capitalist'" in addition to my comment "You're out for yourself first" were taken out of context from two separate topics of conversation. I wish that Caron would have left these statements out or elaborated on them...
...hope that through this letter I can correct the faults I see in this article and encourage people to become more aware of these issues. Rohana L. Fines '86 Vice-president, AIH...