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DIED. IBRAHIM RUGOVA, 61, President of U.N.-administered Kosovo and a leader of the decades-long quest by the province's ethnic Albanian majority for independence from Serbia; of lung cancer; in Pristina...
Kuumba singers marched down the aisles of Memorial Church on Monday, soulfully greeting the multicultural audience gathered for a commemoration of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Unlike in years past, leaders of seven different religious and ethnic campus groups were invited to speak about the meaning of Martin Luther King Day in the context of their own cultural concerns. “The idea is to involve a portion of the Harvard community that in the past has not been involved,” said Om L. Lala ’06, the chair of the Harvard College...
However, other students said that they had more ideological reasons for their reluctance to commit to any one particular ethnic background...
Vivek A. Rudrapatna ’06 said that the belief that race is used as an admissions factor influenced his decision not to provide ethnic information on the medical school applications that he has been submitting this year...
Racial alienation and ethnic mockery are commonplace in the immigrant-kid experience, and the stories these Asian Americans tell of their childhood are "the same kind of talk about social exclusion that you might have found among Italians and Jews in the 1930s," says Harvard sociologist Mary Waters. But previous generations of immigrants' kids, including those Italians and Jews, lived in neighborhoods with built-in social support structures?people who looked like them, ate like them, prayed like them. They had what Marissa Dagdagan, 28, a daughter of Filipino-born doctors, who grew up in Burr Ridge, Ill, says...