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...large extent, much of the debate surrounding the multicultural student center since the late 1960s has been repetitive in its language and unoriginal in its content. Despite the fact that both sides favor intercultural exchange and understanding, the arguments about whether or not such a center can achieve that goal have become entrenched in the same rhetoric, much to the frustration of both sides. Let's examine some of the main points of contention of the debate and really look at the reasoning behind their mere language...
Opponents of the multicultural student center often wonder why different student groups that share the same space (i.e. Thayer or Holworthy Basement) do not interact now. This assertion is untrue to the extent that Asian American Association (AAA) does co-sponsor events with LaRaza or that Black Student Alliance (BSA) works with MSA. In other words, interaction between groups does happen; it just does not happen in their respective offices. The reason is simple: Thayer Basement by no means even approaches the model of a multicultural student center, for it lacks a common physical space for meetings as well...
Harvard University is, in itself, a multicultural student center. unfortunately this argument is too simplistic in this rather complex debate. Sure, semantically, Harvard University is a multicultural student center to the extent that there are students and they are of different backgrounds. But the same argument could be made of any place with students of varying heritage, including the Citadel or the Peruvian embassy, where intercultural understanding are not likely to take place...
...some people at Columbia, gay people were "cool" to the extent that they seemed to dress fabulously and go out a lot (never mind that some of us dressed "normally" and stayed in). To others, they were "glamorous" to the extent that they continually fought against the repressive straight male heterosexist patriarchy (when in fact some of us were conservative reactionaries...
Then it was too much. It took the media longer than expected to convince the nation that the O.J. Simpson trial was the newest racial battleground in America, but convince us they did. As if it were divine revelation, America unquestioningly accepted this ridiculous conceit to such an extent that it finally became true. After so many months of endless, shameless efforts at story-genesis by a media that needed more to report at the end of a day's testimony in the world's most boring soap opera than "a police detective testified about police detective work," America...