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...give a university--and still less a city--the right to decide that some groups' means of restricting membership are more legitimate than other. Harvard, for example, grants official recognition and support to student groups that define their membership by exclusion of one gender (Radcliffe Union of Students), race (Asian-American Association) or sexual orientation (Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association). If this does not violate the non-discrimination rule, neither should ROTC or the Boy Scouts...
...need to unify Asian-American voices and the desire to impassion student activism were the issues that dominated the platform in yesterday's Asian American Association (AAA) elections...
Stanford was an amazing formative period for me. I went into college not knowing I was going to be a play-wright, it was a period of great growth for me, one of the conflicts was that I began to be aware of Asian-American politics and literature and I went into an isolationist nationalist phase, and I think that's really important. At the same time, I knew even when I was in the phase that it should be only one step on a longer journey...
...phase, you stop evolving. It's like people who are in their thirties and still hang around their old high school; it just becomes a little pathetic. So that put me in a certain amount of conflict with people who were a little more righteous about the Asian-American movement. I think partly it's a result of having been brought up as a fundamentalist and rejecting that. I now have an inherent problem with fundamentalism on any level...
History Department administrator Geraldine W. Maletesta said Yin has pledged to return next fall and will teach the two classes he planned to offer this spring. History 1662. "Sociohistorical Aspects of Asian-American Writing," and History 1680, "Asian Immigrants in American Society...