Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suppose the only way to get rid of Rawlins's perceived problem of over and underrepresentation would be to simply take each of the College's genders and ethnic, racial and religious groups and assign them a number of seats on the Undergraduate Council proportional to their percentage of the population. Women would get, say, 40 seats, Asians would get 17, Muslims would get 5 seats, and Jews would get 15, including, of course, those female representatives who happened to also be Jewish-we want no double-dipping...
Harvard should not go down this path. We should vote for whomever we think will serve our community best, irrespective of whether that person is a he or a she, a musician or an athlete, a Christian or a Jew, a member of our own ethnic group or someone from a different background. Then we could have true representatives, along with the contentment that comes from doing right...
...council does not keep figures on the ethnic background of candidates or members, more than 10 members interviewed last night said the new council has a greater showing of Asian-Americans...
...premise of her argument-that the "white male" dominated Council does not contain enough women and racial and ethnic minorities to represent "properly" Harvard's undergraduate community-is based on the racist and sexist assumption that students' principles and beliefs regarding student policy are determined by their sexual features or the hue of their skin...
Rawlins' belief that gender and race define Harvard students' ideas and identities will inevitably result in the intellectual balkanization of the Harvard community along racial and ethnic lines...