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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday, members of three minority organizations--the Asian-American Association (AAA), the Black Students Associations (BSA), and the Gay students Association (GSA)--issued statements demanding special representatives on the new council and warning that they would oppose the council's formation without such representation...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Reserved Seats | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...BSA statement, made by Vada Hill '81-4, was partially retracted yesterday by BSA president Gaye Williams '83, who said her organization has not yet formulated its official position on the council. The GSA students' statement also was toned down by GSA president French Wall '83, who said gay and lesbian students want "some kind of guarantee" that they will be represented on the council, but that something less than full voting membership might be acceptable...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Reserved Seats | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...number of minority students on the council. Some students clearly find this situation unacceptable. "In light of Student Assembly's prior dismal record in incorporating minority viewpoints, I think there needs to be concrete provisions insuring adequate input from the minority sector," Vada Hill '82, the Black Students Association (BSA) representative to the Student Assembly and a member of the constitutional committee, says. "As it stands now, the constitution has no viable means of insuring minority representation...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: A Bureaucratic Facelift | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...days to kill," one of the calendar defacements read; and although 300 people protested such outrageously racist gestures at a rally before the Harvard-Yale Game, Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the BSA, said she perceived the events of the fall as threatening "our right to be here." Tension persisted into the winter despite a decrease in the number of blatantly racist acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minorities | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Attempting to sensitize themselves to the plight of minority students at what has traditionally been a bastion of white, male values, many non-minority students joined in the fight against racism, blatant and institutionalized. "It's not just the BSA that's being attacked--it's all of us," one white student who participated in the fall rally against racism said, adding, "This isn't just a Black issue--it's a human issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minorities | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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