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Jason C.B. Lee ’08, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), objects to the way that some students characterize social groups based along racial and ethnic lines. “Segregation has a negative connotation, like ‘black students are imposing this extreme negative on themselves. Segregation is terrible and now they’re doing it to themselves.’ We kind of balk at the term ‘self-segregation’ because we feel good about what we do here, how we interact with each other...
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...
Jason C. B. Lee ’08, president of the Black Students Association (BSA) said that the diversity within the black student community at Harvard has been discussed widely by the BSA in public and private forums...