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...passivity, Epps' strategy for race relations on this campus does embrace the idea of programmatic action through the Harvard Foundation. Contrast this tack with that of Appelbaum, whose negativity last night proved overwhelming. Aside from admitting that there was a problem, he saw nothing that could be done to alleviate it. This is the worst sort of mentality, the resistance to change for the better. It is not worth detailing his many awful statements (such as calling the proposed multicultural student center a "cage"), but suffice to say that his do-nothing attitude reflected a bent uninterested in solving...
...opponents of a multicultural student center on the panel convened last night at Ticknor Lounge, namely Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Peninsula hack John C. Appelbaum '97, conceded, in the end, that life itself can be unfair with regard to race and that Harvard too can act in a racist fashion. The admission was honest and true, and no doubt personally felt by both the Dean and the columnist. But for some reason their (different) understandings of the problems surrounding race at the College and in this country did not translate for them into the desire...
...When Appelbaum was questioned by Grace K.L. Katabaruki '99 about the his cynicism, he rolled his eyes. But Katabaruki had something good to propose. Appelbaum would have none of it, and offered only a laissez-faire manifesto in response to her very human pleading for a "safe space" for minorities on this campus. Katabaruki recognizes daily in her personal experience the undeniable role of each of our races and cultures in the daily grind. And on this campus, that's not always such a pleasant experience for black people Katabaruki seeks space to relax those who share experiences similar...
Beth A. Stewart '00, ~~a council member from Hollis, was elected treasurer, replacing John J. Appelbaum '97, who also did not seek re-election...
Those who oppose this policy recommendation do so on two grounds. The first is pragmatic: the U.C. has no right to dictate morality--or anything else--to a religious institution. As John J. Appelbaum '97 vocalized after the meeting, "I think the U.C. should stay out of the matters of the house...