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...Series, “Afro-Asian Encounters”—co-hosted by the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Black Students Association (BSA)—explored the relationship between African and Asian Americans in the United States. Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the first...
...apartheid black economic empowerment projects on wine farms in her native South Africa.Dovey spent her early childhood shuttling back and forth to Australia with her family due to the death threats the South African police made against her father, an academic. She moved permanently to Australia (where she has dual citizenship) when she was 14. Although she had been back to South Africa on holidays and for thesis research during her junior summer, it was only after Harvard that Dovey returned to South Africa on a traveling fellowship to live. “It was a really difficult and quite...
...surprising twist to the start of the spring dual racing season, the Harvard men’s heavyweight crew team suffered an unexpected loss to Brown on the Seekonk River Saturday afternoon. Despite a strong team effort—the Crimson won four of the day’s five races—Harvard’s varsity eight came up short in its event, posting a time of 6:28.83. The Bears finished the race in 6:23.73 on their way to winning the Stein Cup. Since the inception of the program, the Crimson...
...rankings throughout spring 2007. Then Cornell snagged its second-straight national crown in Camden, N.J., edging Harvard by just over one second in a dramatic grand final.On Saturday, the Crimson again found itself trailing defending champion Cornell, this time in Harvard’s season-opening dual race on Lake Cayuga.The Crimson’s three varsity eights all fell to the Big Red, while Harvard’s two freshman boats captured narrow victories over host Cornell. Both the Harvard varsity and second varsity boats handily beat third-place Penn, with the Crimson’s second varsity crossing...
...think we could have done better but pretty confident that we’re going to get faster as the season goes on.” Next week, the Crimson will travel to Providence, to challenge the Bears for the Stein Cup in the first dual race of the season. Harvard reclaimed the cup last season after losing in the 2006 campaign, a defeat that broke the Crimson’s 24-race winning streak. “Brown is always a pretty competitive matchup,” Medioli said. “They’re a pretty strong...