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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus, Tarazi has served since early 1988 as president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS). Under his leadership, the group has shifted from predominantly cultural activities to increasingly political ones, such as last fall's successful campaign supporting a Cambridge ballot question on Palestinian rights...
...Harvard freshman, Tarazi joined a group of seniors in founding SAS and kept up his informal debates with classmates on Palestinian issues. He says some saw him as waging a private crusade or even as anti-Semitic. Sophomore year, he majored in Middle Eastern History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...
Soon after, Tarazi won the presidency of SAS byproposing a campus publicity campaign on allegedIsraeli atrocities. The group put up informationalposters that were promptly torn down and defaced,especially in Dunster House, where the masterissued a warning to the defacers...
Tarazi says that view was one reason why heplayed a Jewish character in a campus productionof The Diary of Anne Frank. "I wantedpeople to know that you can be pro-Palestinian,pro-Arab, and not be a Nazi," he says. However,Tarazi adds, "Just because one group has beenpersecuted in the past does not give them theright to persecute in the present...
...weakened version of the affirmative action report is not only an attempt to lessen the non-administrative faculty voice, but also a direct slap in the face to a substantial group of students who have been committed to forcing FAS and the University to increase its minority hiring...