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Efforts by the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) to communicate to the administration students' interest in having more ethnic studies opportunities appear to have made an impact...
Last Saturday at the annual Cultural Rhythms Festival, the actor Halle Berry joined hundreds of students wearing green armbands in support of ethnic studies. The bands, distributed by the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC), were intended to communicate to the administration the broad base of support among students for ethnic studies and to keep the issue visible on campus...
...applaud the ESAC for their efforts and all those who participated in this important symbolic expression. Hopefully, this symbolic act will soon be followed by concrete progress...
...ESAC's goals also include the formation of adepartment, or more realistically, a committeewith curricular responsibilities, like history andliterature or social studies. However, Sommer saidit is unlikely that ethnic studies will become anindependent program...
...ESAC members are currently working on buildinga coalition with other student groups and planningdebates about ethnic studies. In the past, ESAChas sponsored rallies over junior parents'weekend, held panels and organized teach-ins. Italso passed out armbands at last year's CulturalRhythms