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...minority groups self-segregating? Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. Albert Hsia, in his March 9 editorial, criticized the Asian American Association (AAA) and other minority organizations for what he believed was their tendency toward self-segregation. But in backing up his opinion with outright falsehoods and blanket statements, he overstepped his bounds and demonstrated an ignorance of what minority groups strive to do and actually...
...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. I, like many of my friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Futhermore, I believe that it is a credit to the minority students...
...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activities, 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 of the BSA. For 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...
...Asian-American, but I did take great offense to Mr. Hsia's statement that "A Chorus Line is not an appropriate script for an all-Asian cast." According to whom? Just because the Broadway cast is not all-Asian, does that mean that it cannot be adapted by an all-Asian cast? A crucial element to the "Chorus Line" production, which I happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line," the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training...
Finally, I am glad that Mr. Hsia's editorial was printed because it brought into the open some of the ignorance that concerns minorities and minority organizations. Harvard is a place where we can all learn from each other. Moreover, the assembly of minority groups should not be seen as a threat or a desire to be separatist. In a community of such diversity, minorities sometimes need to make associations with people of the same minority background for cultural, social, political, or whatever reason and their right to make these associations should be respected and admired. Mecca J. Nelson...