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Noting that most of the rapes involved freshmen, the women's center proposal urges that "freshperson orientation must have mandatory security education...
Harvard-Radcliffe's "commitment" to diversity begins with its Third World recruitment program and ends with the Third World Freshperson Orientation. The University has failed to provide significant and meaningful support socially, financially, or institutionally for its Third World community. As Afro-Americans, Asian Americans, Boricuas, Chicanos, NATIVE Americans, Carribbean peoples, and international students, we have struggled to express our identities, cultures, and histories among ourselves; to share the commonality of our experiences as Third World people; and to enrich the larger community as a whole. We, ourselves, have been forced to take on the entire responsibility for the minimal...
...UCTWO was constituted as an official organization called the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students (OSTWS). OSTWS focused their efforts on the demand for greater Third World student input and control in the admissions process. The result was the first freshperson Minority Orientation Program in the fall of 1975. Minority orientation has proven to be the mainstay of programmatic activity which has been developed by Third World students from 1975 to the present...
Because the University has failed to provide adequate support services for Third World students, and in view of insensitivity on the part of other student-run organizations, Third World students took the responsibility for establishing their own ongoing programs and activities. Minority Freshperson Orientation and Prefreshperson Weekend were major programs instituted by Third World students. Once the Admissions Office granted the activities, it became necessary for students strengthen and consolidate those programs. the programs and present their view of life at Harvard-Radcliffe. Through these programs in-coming minority group people are encouraged to consider their tenure here in light...
...FIRST STEP was a small one. Over a period of a few weeks, I visited everyone in the dorm and was soon elected "dorm rep" for the Freshperson Entertainment Committee. This proved to be a good launching pad toward a career in organized activity. By sophomore year I was splitting time between the Diet Committee and SO. (Students of Oppression). Politics had never been my beat though, until recently. I was looking up the word 'aperture' in the dictionary to explain a joke I had just told when I came upon the word 'apartheid.' I began thinking...