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...Hairston said in response to a question about College officials' reaction to the guide's evaluation. "If the administration has problems with some of the criticisms...then it should take steps to correct the situation...
...best interest to publicly do anything about student government," Curtis Hairston '84, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), said yesterday...
...Hairston pointed to the announcement by several radical groups yesterday that they would try to run for Undergraduate Council seats as the kind of public announcement that might be detrimental to special interest groups...
...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...
...realizing the possible advantages of getting alumni support along the lines of RUS. A group like the BSA is severely limited by the fact that Blacks have only been graduating from Harvard in large numbers since 1977, so their alumni pool is still relatively small and young. But Hairston says he anticipates a larger role for Black alumni this fall, noting that "most student organizations get a lot of their funding" from alumni. A recently formed group of Black alumni supporting Afro-American Studies has begun to exert some pressure on the University to continue its backing for the department...