Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Complaints about Epps does ranged from his alleged failure to involve students in decision making to his alleged tendency to greet Asian American students in East Asian languages...
...Epps' alleged "insensitivities" was that he often offends Asian American students by "randomly" greeting them in East Asian languages. But even more telling was Cheng's remark to a Crimson reporter writing a story on the letter that "you wouldn't do that to every Black student, try to speak to him in jive. Why should you try to greet Asian students in various Asian languages...
...students said they did not think Epps was intentionally insensitive. "He thinks by greeting us in a language he's connecting with us on some level. But it's just more insulting because it seems like a lack of respect," Cheng said. "You wouldn't do that to every Black student, try to speak to him in jive. Why should you try to greet Asian students in various Asian languages...
...after all, the knowledge that there will still be a world tomorrow, in which to apply what scholars discover and invent today, that is the single most important motivation for the scholar's continued existence. It scandalizes Harvard that members of its faculty greet Powell not with the respect and gratitude he deserves for his role in securing the peace we enjoy today, but rather with egotistical, shrill demands for a change in policy which, realistically, he cannot support...
...invite a speaker only to greet him with angry shouts and accusations of bigotry reflects very poorly on Harvard as an institution. The demonstrations will undermine the unity which should be present on a day which is the culmination of four years of academic endeavor. And most importantly, they demean the accomplishments of a man who deserves our highest esteem...