Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pointed out to the Foundation office that Asian American student activities are attended almost entirely by Asian Americans, Latino activities by Latinos, Indian activities by Indians, etc., Somehow the spirit of "Third World does not seem to permeate. "Third World" student of all backgrounds participate in Harvard's many ethnic and cultural activities...
...Foundation would do well to invite more intellectual and scholarly persons to Harvard. Again, let us examine the facts. For the past two years, the Harvard Foundation has hosted a variety of stimulating Black and other "Third World" intellectuals. While other minority groups have turned out for their ethnic speakers in significant numbers. Black undergraduate student turnout has been embarrassingly...
...there is no student input into the FDO's official view on Third World student needs and concerns. A Black student needs to know that there are certain areas in Boston to which he or she cannot go. Recently, in response to a woman student's claim that ethnic identity and gender were an important part of one's "Harvard experience." Dean Henry Moses replied. "I do not think that ethnic identity or gender were an important part of every piece of one's life...
...student, regardless of ethnic back-ground, can run for one of the minority or foreign seats...
...child of immigrants from Barbados who owned a small trucking concern in Brooklyn, Maynard dropped out of high school to write for neighborhood and ethnic publications. In 1961 he joined the York (Pa.) Gazette and Daily as a reporter. He became a Nieman fellow in journalism at Harvard, then was hired by the Washington Post, "where I went from covering riots to covering the White House." He left in 1977 for the Berkeley campus of the University of California to establish a training program for minority journalists, which he ran, in his words, "like a bootcamp." Maynard applies the same...