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...wrong list of people is a mistake, but it is more embarrassing than damaging. But sending a message—an e-mail rather than a more respectful old-fashioned letter—that is intimidating rather than constructive is more than a mistake. It gives the distinct impression of an administration unable to resolve the debate over workers’ wages that has occupied campus for years, an administration unwilling to create a more open and consultative dialogue on the critical issues affecting the University...
Other members add that each group serves a distinct purpose, though the membership of gay groups like BGLTSA, BOND, and Girlspot overlap...
Segregating these studies by ethnicity would not only impose rigid boundaries among ill-defined and fluid groups; it would also eliminate methodology’s role in defining the disciplines. The Crimson endorsed queer studies in part because gays and lesbians represent a “distinct social group,” but there are many such groups that could be the focus of one’s undergraduate years. Which groups are most “important,” and which should get their concentrations first? The fear isn’t of a slippery slope?...
...doesn’t have to be this way. Advocates of ethnic studies could refocus their energies on two distinct goals: correcting the curricular imbalance and establishing a concentration to study identity. To be honest, I’m skeptical that such a concentration would be coherent. The methodology of studying identity isn’t entirely clear. As in the case of the social studies concentration, one wonders how a synthesis of all aspects of the human experience could be achieved, as well as whether it is feasible within four short undergraduate years. Would such a concentration truly integrate...
...study of identity in its clearest form, separate from the related issue of curricular imbalance and the entirely unrelated issue of whether Harvard likes minorities. They only need to be debated once, eliminating the eternal recurrence that would follow as concentrations are requested for every “distinct social group.” And they are questions the University, as an academic community, is most capable of debating—and resolving well...