Word: hairston
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...between these two extremes. Lacking the power of RUS's alumni constituency and friends, but also lacking GSA's entrenched opposition, they design their tactics accordingly. In fact, the BSA's biggest obstacle may be the seemingly decreased urgency of the issues confronting Blacks on campus. BSA President Curtis Hairston '84 says that there has been a decline in the old and "obvious" issues. The battle for a third world student center, which rallied many minorities two years ago was resolved with the formation of the race-relations Foundation. The struggle to strengthen the Afro-American Studies Department has lost...
...Hairston portrays the last year--during which the BSA was unusually quiet--as a time of confusion and fatigue. "After the events of last spring as far as the third world center and the birth of the race-relations Foundation, people were just unsure of where to go from there," he says. When he heads up the organization this fall, Hairston says he will be working to show Black students that "there are plenty of issues here," pointing out that since many of them "aren't as salient, they have to be brought out" by the BSA leadership...
...spring of '81, when members of the Seymour Society picketed outside a cabaret the BSA was holding for Malcolm X weekend. Although the Seymour Society cannot compete in numbers--Cooke estimates its active membership at about 15, just a 10th of the turnout in the election that made Hairston BSA president--it has served as an effective gadfly by insisting that Black Harvard students maintain strong ties with poor Blacks in Boston and around the nation. They have often been effective in their more visible techniques--including a rally last spring in opposition to Senate Bill S. 1630, a proposed...
...Curtis M Hairston '84, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), said at the time "I don't really see where the Foundation has taken any steps to improve race relations...
...have a certain number of students who are politically conscious while they were here, and I don't think after four years they can just forget what they've done here," Hairston said. He added that many seniors have vowed to continue direct participation in campus issues...