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...minority and a member of the Executive Board of the Black Students Association (BSA), I took great offense to the article by Albert Hsia on what he perceived to be the self-segregation of minority groups...
...would like to address concerns the dining halls. Why do people take such offense to a group of minorities sitting at a table together? Does anyone ever question or even notice a table full of whites? What about the tables where there is a mixed group of people? Mr. Hsia did not even acknowledge the existence of such tables...
...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activites, I beg to differ. I am on the BSA's Executive Board and I know that we only have one committee specially designated for social activities. If people like Mr. Hsia would bother to look at the total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities...
...example, did Mr. Hsia notice that, during the first weekend of February, the BSA sponsored the Inter-Collegiate Conference (ICC), in which Black students from Ivy League and Boston area schools came together at Harvard to discuss the future of Blacks in America. In addition, during the month of February, the BSA sponsored a multitude of events, only one of which was a dance, to celebrate Black History Month...
...losing our focus," as Hsia suggests? The answer is no. Every year, we hold a food festival, a cultural festival, a film festival and host speakers and workshops to celebrate and educate the Harvard community about the Asian American experience. More than half the positions in our steering committee deal specifically with political and social concerns of Asian Americans, "social" being defined as having to do with human beings existing and interacting together. This year alone, we organized an intercollegiate conference on Asian American social concerns and played large roles in bringing about Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism week...