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Last Friday, we discovered that guests at the Chinese Students Association??s Graffiti Party had scrawled racial slurs on the walls of the Lowell Grille. This blatant act of intolerance is unacceptable. Unfortunately, this event is just one of the most recent in a series of discriminatory incidents that have transpired in the past two weeks...
...mail list-serve, “Generic Good Morning Message,” sent an e-mail to hundreds of students laced with racist remarks about the University’s newly appointed president, Harvard Medical School Professor Jim Yong Kim, who is South Korean. The Asian American Association??s recent marketing of the “Mr. Asian Sensation” male beauty pageant also stoked controversy on the Kirkland House e-mail list. Some students said that the pageant was offensive because it presumed that non-Asian participants would be excluded. The organization has already responded...
...Harvard Phillips Brooks House Association??s Alternative Spring Break program received a record 380 applications for this year’s trips—an increase of approximately 90 percent over last year. The program, which gives students the opportunity to work on public service projects over the week-long vacation, will send about 120 students to nine different locations this March. More students will be participating in the program this year than any other year in its near half-century history, with the exception of 2006, when a special donation from the Harvard COOP allowed 150 students...
Invariably vibrant and irresistibly energetic, Harvard South Asian Association??s annual performance, Ghungroo, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. With a new program comprised of traditional dances, musical pieces, and comedic skits, this immense effort features a cast of over a hundred students. SAA co-president Ria S. Tobaccowala ’10, who shares her position with Joseph G. Thumpasery ’10, is one of the members producing Ghungroo this year. The Harvard Crimson: What are the SAA’s objectives this year for its anniversary performance? Ria S. Tobaccowala: Our main objective this...
...tempting smell of grease from the Kong is what usually drags in hordes of hungry undergraduates craving spring rolls. But last Friday, it was the Chinese Student Association??s Banquet 2009 that had undergrads scrambling to dig their chopsticks into some lo mein and get their hands on a dumpling or two. For this festive affair, Leverett dining hall was transformed into a party scene packed with more than 350 guests, including students, tutors, and even professors. Dinner, consisting of a never-ending 14 courses, was catered by the Peach Farm restaurant in Chinatown. The restaurant?...