Word: focusing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Asian Americans on campus: culturally, to celebrate the richness of our heritage; educationally, to discover our identities; politically, to obtain the rights to which we are entitled as human beings and as minorities are being denied; socially, to develop ties with those with whom we share commonalities. Our focus is the Asian American community, and we have and always will encourage all Harvard-Radcliffe students to explore its many facets...
...losing our focus," as Hsia suggests? The answer is no. Every year, we hold a food festival, a cultural festival, a film festival and host speakers and workshops to celebrate and educate the Harvard community about the Asian American experience. More than half the positions in our steering committee deal specifically with political and social concerns of Asian Americans, "social" being defined as having to do with human beings existing and interacting together. This year alone, we organized an intercollegiate conference on Asian American social concerns and played large roles in bringing about Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism week...
...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activities, I beg to differ. I am on the BSA's Executive Board and I know that we only have one committee specially designated for social activities. If people like Mr. Hsia would bother to look at the total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities of the BSA. For example, did Mr. Hsia notice that, during the first weekend of February, the BSA sponsored the Inter Collegiate Conference (ICC), in which Black students from Ivy League and Boston area schools came...
...reading was catalyzed by Rushdie, although he is not the focus of the evening," said reading organizer Kenji Yoshino '91, a Pegasus of the Advocate, which sponsored the reading...
...under Chapter 11. For one thing, the bankruptcy court has the power to set terms for a contract settlement. But the unions will also be able to file a reorganization plan for the airline. Union leaders gave every indication that the strike will continue. At week's end its focus turned to picketing Continental facilities at airports in Miami, Houston, Denver and Newark...