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...dilemma: should one aim to be an artist, an American artist, or a Black artist' Scholars continue to argue for example, over whether Ralph Ellison's classic. Invisible Man, is primarily a novel about an artist in America or a novel about a Black man in America. When singer Diana Ross was invited to Harvard last month as an example of Black achievement a controversy broke out over whether she adequately reflects Black cultural values. A century later, the debate between Booker I Washington and W. E. B DuBois goies on only the names have changed...
...male lawyers choose to underestimate her, that is fine with Houston's Diana Marshall, 35. "It happens constantly," she says. "And I'll admit, I've won a few cases by planting the notion that little old me wouldn't really take a case all the way to trial, without settling first. I'd spend all weekend preparing for trial while my opponent goes to the golf course." Such guile, plus prodigious energy, has enabled Marshall to become one of two women partners (out of 112) at the giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge...
...letters to the Crimson of May 4, 5, 11 and the editorial piece of May 13, Which cavil about the Harvard Foundation's sponsorship of Diana Ross's visit to Harvard, deserve a response. In the past I have been reluctant to respond publicly and critically to uninformed assertions of the kind made in these letters because of my concern for the feelings of Black students who, in my opinion, are too often criticized. But in this instance, as Director of the Foundation, I am compelled to respond and clear up obvious misconceptions and misrepresentations of the facts...
Lest some students be misled into believing that the sentiments expressed in the letters represent those of the majority of Black students at Harvard, it should be pointed out that hundreds of supportive Black and other students (and staff) turned out to pay their respects to Diana Ross and Sugar Ray Leonard. The Foundation literally had to turn away scores of students from the luncheon reception because of the lack of space...
...might view it as a positive sign that the Diana Ross visit inspired five letters to The Crimson from "concerned" Black students. This is unprecedented Over the past few years. Black children have been beaten and murdered by racist in the Boston area, the Ku Kluk Klan ahs rallied here. Jerry Falwell has spoken on the Harvard campus. Harvard Black students fear for their safety when travelling in Boston. Black enrollment is at its lowest in 13 years, and South African apartheid issues stare us in the face-yet no one can recall even one letter from these same Black...