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Carrying signs with messages such as "500 years of oppression" and Discovery of genocide?," more than 50 demonstrators congregated yesterday on the steps of Widener Library to protest the celebration of Columbus...
Members of the Minority of Student Alliance organized the event to help the Harvard community "take time to study the full aspects of Columbus Day as a holiday," said organizer E. Franklin Miller...
...Columbus "didn't discover a land, he discovered a people," Miller said to the crowd gathered on the steps and to pedestrians in the Yard...
After the demonstration, Miller said he was "not completely" pleased with turnout at the rally. He said awareness could be improved if study formally the events of Columbus' exploration...
Fernandez said she thought the socio-economic problems of today's minority groups are related to "the attitude of discovery and prejudice" forstered by Columbus and his contemporaries...