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Both Hwang and Co-president Joan R. Cheng '95 could not be reached for comment last night...
...President Haewon Hwang '95, one of the letter's authors, told The Crimson that Counter had discussed the letter with her and co-author and Co-President Joan R. Cheng '95 before they released it and even encouraged them to some extent...
There is a world of difference between the suggestion that a student would speak a language spoken by his or her ancestors and a thoughtless, misplaced Black stereotype. The analogy Cheng makes is ridiculously flawed--and is far more insensitive than any alleged remark or inefficiency attributed to Epps...
...Cheng, you wouldn't try to speak to a Black student in "jive." But if Dean Epps thought he knew enough about a given student's background to deduce a language they or someone in their family might speak, and greeted them in that language, it would be no more insensitive than greeting me in Russian or asking me if I speak...
Assuming a Black student speaks "jive" is not the same as assuming a Chinese American student speaks Chinese. Neither the letter nor Cheng explicitly said that Epps ever, for example, addressed a Korean student in Japanese, although it vaguely refers to a greeting made "so insensitive" by Epps to a Filipino student. Admittedly, the latter would be an insensitive error, in certain contexts. But it hardly even approaches the suggestion that "jive" is a Black national or cultural language and that students should be greeted...