Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Panelists acknowledged the presence of varyingdegrees of segregation in the Harvard community,some viewing it as a negative aspect of campuslife and others finding a certain level of comfortin being with their own ethnic group...
Epps stressed that while diversity is animportant part of College life, Harvard choosesstudents based on their personal merits and not ontheir ethnic or racial background...
...years, Harvard has remained stubbornly resistant to the demands of the sizable number of its students seeking an ethnic studies program, making only begrudging, minor concessions...
Last Saturday at the annual Cultural Rhythms Festival, the actor Halle Berry joined hundreds of students wearing green armbands in support of ethnic studies. The bands, distributed by the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC), were intended to communicate to the administration the broad base of support among students for ethnic studies and to keep the issue visible on campus...
...Ethnic studies is defined as the interdisciplinary, comparative study of the cultures of American ethnic minorities as they interact with each other and the larger American culture. There are hundreds of ethnic studies programs at universities all over the country, most of which were built only through the sustained pressure of student activism...