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...group member asked Natalie, a bar hostess, to seat them. Natalie said the restaurant had a policy of reserving its tables for dinner customers only before 10:30 p.m. It was just past 9--so the new arrivals would have to wait...
...hostess did not explain delay, group members said. When they asked her about it, Natalie rolled her eyes, turned and left, Perng said...
APALSA members said they could not recall whether or not they told hostess they intended to have dinner before being asked to wait...
...Tuesday, April 11, 15 members of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) gathered at Temple Bar to celebrate the election of their executive board. They subsequently suffered two horrific indignities. First, because the restaurant was still in the midst of its dinner rush and the hostess did not understand that APALSA group intended to order food, they were forced to wait 25 minutes to get a table. Second--and this was the straw that broke the camel's back--the group was asked to present I.D. at the door...
...some point the outraged members of APALSA will come to realize that thankfully, for most of the world, their racial identity is not their defining characteristic. If Temple Bar did mistreat them last week it was probably not because they were Asian. More likely, the hostess saw a group of pompous Harvard Law students and decided, perhaps with a touch of malice, to keep them waiting. Who can blame...