Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Initially excludes ethnic groups, then does an about-face after forceful student outcry. Oops! Plan better next year...
...specifically made a point to include a lot of [other religious and ethnic] groups," Engelman said. "The prejudice, oppression and persecution of the Holocaust are themes that, sadly, are familiar to many people...
These forms of protest are important, but they are incomplete. For one thing, institutional change at Harvard is a painfully slow process. Core reform and the creation of Ethnic Studies, when these initiatives have been taken seriously by the administration, have moved at a glacial pace. It is a general rule that students who push for changes in the curriculum, even if successful, are not likely to still be enrolled at Harvard-Radcliffe by the time those changes are made. Moreover, conventional methods of protest and external criticism of Harvard policies both seem to simply stiffen the administration's opposition...
...students establish the Cambridge New College--an organization that will be devoted to encouraging students to develop and teach their own courses and that will provide them with the resources necessary to do so. The Cambridge New College will aim at developing a diverse curriculum, including courses in ethnic studies, music, political theory, economics, religion, history, community relations, ecology and whatever else students are interested in teaching and learning together. It will also provide a space in which students can experiment with methods of learning and fields of inquiry...
...psychologically with their friends and partners. Rape happens at Harvard. Therefore our programming necessarily addresses both women and men: TBTN is hosting a male athletes' forum to discuss violence against women, a discussion with a speaker from a battered women's shelter, panels on domestic violence amongst various ethnic communities on campus and beyond and a demonstration and discussion about Harvard's date rape policies...