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Junior Parents Weekend co-coordinator Richard D. Gardner '95 is a little bit peeved. "Rather displeased," is the way Gardner describes his feelings about the decision of a group of minority students to stage protests during two events during the annual weekend for parents to visit their children at Harvard and see slice of college life...
...Gardner understands that the students weren't protesting Junior Parents Weekend, per se, but rather the University's dearth of minority professors and course offerings in ethnic studies. He knows the protesters were just using the event as a public forum to voice their concerns, Indeed, he doesn't even disagree with them...
Still, he's upset. "It was unfortunate that it had to conflict with several speakers who had come to talk to with the parents," Gardner says. "I just wish that Junior Parents Weekend doesn't always have to become a time for the campus to mobilize in protest every year. That's not what it was intended for, but it seems that's what it's become...
This year, however, the students haven't done much until now, Indeed, even this weekend's protest seemed half-hearted. As Gardner puts it, "It was a very last-second sort of thing so it leads me to wonder just how much momentum they had going into...
Richard D. Gardner '95, co-coordinator of the parents' weekend committee, said he was "rather displeased" that the students chose the occasion to demonstrate because it is "not the correct forum" to air their grievances...