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BOSTON—Bearing candles at the scene of a recent Roxbury shooting, the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA) called on Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 to take decisive action against urban violence in Boston. The event, which BSA President Sarah Lockridge-Steckel ’09 described as a cross between a vigil and a press conference, brought 25 Harvard undergraduates to a basketball court in Washington Park, Roxbury last night. Echoing an open letter she sent the governor last Friday, Lockridge-Steckel said Patrick has not done enough to fight crime in black communities...
Leaders of Harvard’s cultural organizations view their groups in terms of two ideal values: community and comfort. Students look to these groups as a source of warmth and familiarity in a Harvard campus that can seem overwhelming. Lee describes the BSA as “a support network for all students, in an otherwise isolating and cold place.” Likewise, Jimmy Zhao ’08, co-president of the Asian American Association (AAA), says one of the club’s goals “is to provide a community for our members...
...mixing and end the concentration of minority students and athletes in certain houses. Reaction to this plan was fairly mixed at first, with some student minority leaders expressing doubts about the consequences of the move. For instance, Derrick N. Ashong ’97, a former president of the BSA, worried that the plan would cause splintering in the Black community...
...Today, BSA President Lee asserts that randomization might even increase the time Black students spend with one another: “It seems almost counter-intuitive. Because we’re separated, we work that much harder to come together. At a school like this, I do recognize the importance of getting to know members of the black community...
...easy to fall into the trap where you say this is a community that celebrates a certain ethnicity, but it’s actually only celebrated by that ethnicity.” Although Nathan P. Whitfield ’09, who is a member of the BSA, acknowledges the importance of ethnic and cultural groups, he worries that students who spend a lot of time devoted to their racial community often “get into the habit of sticking with these groups.” He says, “Just having those groups on campus is divisive...