Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week, a couple things are clearer to the Minority Student Alliance, a group composed of representatives from AAA, BSA, CSA, Hillel, KSA, La O and Raza. First, it's times like these we see the need for minority coalition building. It would be unfortunate for S. Allen Counter's letter to The Crimson two week's ago to divide minority groups...
...Second, Counter's letter and the ensuing controversy point out need for the different minority groups and the Foundation to talk to each other the Minority Student Alliance believes that, just as Counter said, there needs to be more dialogue and understanding. The MA believes that to avoid future controversies as this all groups need to talk and listen. More specifically, in the fall MA is planning more extensive coalition building through a joint, multi-cultural publication, a speaker series and joint community service. MA presently meets Thursday at 9 p.m. in Lamont 403 and welcomes discussion from the Harvard...
...upset by the tone of the staff editorial. It is this style of reporting that perhaps also antagonizes and upsets other minority leaders on campus. The Crimson states that "the signatures of students from Hillel, BGLSA and the South Asian Association are conspicuously absent from 'unified' calls to defend Counter...
...April 14, S. Allen counter submitted a letter to The Crimson citing problems with the newspaper's coverage of minorities and its portrayal of the Foundation {"Crimson Misrepresented the Harvard Foundation"). I read Counter's letter and agree with some, but not all of his criticisms. Specifically, I did agree with most of the criticisms about The Crimson, but not of the comments made linking The Crimson with distinct groups on campus, namely Hillel...
...sign the letters in question, it could have been, and indeed would have been, for a different reason than was blatantly insinuated in The Crimson editorial. The Crimson is wrong in the conclusions they imply about why the voice of SAA is missing in a unified support for Counter and have no basis to draw their conclusions. We simply did not have the time to enact our organization's mechanisms to make such a decision...