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...Colin Powell is a watcher; so are Robin Williams, Mel Brooks and Stephen Hawking, the best- selling physicist (A Brief History of Time) who made a guest appearance in an episode of The Next Generation, playing poker with holographic re-creations of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Rachelle Chong, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, has decorated her office with Trek paraphernalia and dressed up as Captain Picard for Halloween. "I like the show because it shows me tomorrow," she says. And sometimes today: the cellular phone-like communicators used by the Trek crew back in the 1960s...
...editorial board is correct in pointing out that such a comment is "an ambiguous statement that could signal several different directions." Instead of merely assuming that ESAC is plunging into militant activism at the expense of "rational debate," the editorial board should have considered what Chong meant by "a different approach." In fact, she was alluding to the quiet activism of the Academic Affairs Committee, a committee which has collected ethnic studies syllabi from other universities and submitted them to the dean of undergraduate education...
...different approaches Chong was referring to--in the context of the interview--did not have anything to do with burning down the Law School but rather with more teach-ins, public discussions or perhaps even a house seminar course. Furthermore, this misconstrued quote arose from a long dialogue Chong had with a Crimson reporter for a feature story on ethnic studies. It is hypocritical of the editorial board to support addressing the complexities of ethnic studies and then turn around and reduce several interviews to one misrepresentated statement...
...surprisingly, The Crimson also has trouble reporting basic facts correctly. In the news story, the now-famous Hyewon Chong quote was quoted out of context. Furthermore, one of the panelists. Assistant Professor Anne Cheng, was reterred to as "Associate Professor." In her talk, she told a story about an ethnic literature scholar whose proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities was rejected. The Crimson article referred to this as a proposal to the "National Institutes of Health," making Cheng's criticism of this rejection seem inane and incomprehensible. In the editorial about ethnic studies, Chong is referred...
...weren't for the rallies and the petitions organized by the students for ethnic studies last year, the administration (and The Crimson, for that matter) would not have noticed that ethnic studies is an important issue that can no longer be ignored. Irene C. Cheng Hyewon T. Chong Julie C. Suk Members, ESAC