Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intellectual vigor, the Harvard education most receive is utterly empty in normative content. The emphasis of education here rests on how and where to acquire knowledge, not where to apply it or to what end. Social justice becomes an issue relegated to optional extracurricular activities such as PBHA and ethnic groups to address...
Burton said the council should pressure the administration for smaller section sizes, advising and counseling reform, ethnic studies programs and additional funding for house life...
...committee created the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which dispenses money to student groups to support efforts to address racial and ethnic diversity...
...only gives Harvard students the freedom to glorify our school before others, but it brings us together as nothing else can. Ordinarily, in our diverse college, our allegiances are split among a multitude of clubs, groups and Houses. Unlike many of the events put on by the countless ethnic, racial and religious groups on campus, The Game is not meant to appeal to only a segment of the student population. Everyone is included in the Yale hype. Further, the issues that would normally inhibit our praising fair Harvard--from grapes at lunch to Faculty diversity--can be forgotten...
...MELTING POT, BUT A SALAD BOWL." This, we are told, is multicultural America, where different ethnicities don't simply blend into a common fondue of American identity but retain their distinctive flavor to enrich a larger American salad. Ideally, the lettuce appreciates the tomatoes for the tomato-ness, the mushrooms for their mushroom-ness, and so on; yet we are often too busy to examine each component of the salad bowl for its complexities. We chew it quickly, sensing only what is most immediate to our tastebuds, nod, and move on to the next bite, Thus it is that American...