Word: ethnical
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Nationalism, whether ethnic or civic, is clearly one of the most powerful of the forces which move societies, and what is nationalism if not factionalism writ large...
Today, representatives from the student body, the administration and the faculty are convening in a panel to discuss the possibilities of a multicultural student center. We support the move to explore questions of ethnic issues on campus in an open discussion forum and hope that the administration and faculty will listen to the student voice on this issue. We encourage the panel to consider the creation of a multicultural student center built on the model of Radcliffe's Lyman Common Room...
...argument for the center is straightforward: a multicultural student center would enhance interaction between Harvard's ethnic organizations while facilitating the dissemination of cultural awareness to the Harvard community at large. As a letter signed by more than fifteen leaders of cultural organizations and over 400 Harvard affiliates in late Oct. 1995, summed up: the creation of a multicultural student center would serve to "reaffirm Harvard's commitment to a diverse and inclusive community...
Regardless of its form, we hope that a multicultural student center would provide ethnic organizations with a central meeting space as well as a locus of information and social interaction, while facilitating the increase of cultural awareness on our campus...
However, a word of caution: a center devoted solely to ethnic and cultural organizations runs the danger of self-segregation and its inevitable counterpart--marginalization. One of the hall-marks of the post-World War II Harvard community has been the commitment to a shared collective culture comprised of myriad ethnicities and cultural backgrounds that the diverse student body represents. The creation of a multicultural student center could potentially undermine that shared experience by separating certain ethnicities and exacerbating divisions. We expect the panel to address these dangers. We need to ensure that a multicultural student center would be able...