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According to John Y. Hsu ’03, Knowles said there was very little he could do and that the changes would instead be up to individual departments—which he said were already making progress in hiring more faculty members with interests in ethnic studies...
Julian O. Breece ’03: Contributor, Diversity and DistinctionErnani J. DeAraujo ’03: Speakers Director, Harvard Republican ClubRoss G. Douthat ’02: Editor, Harvard SalientBrandon A. Gayle ’03: President, Black Students AssociationJohn Y. Hsu ’02: Member, Ethnic Studies CoalitionSujean S. Lee ’03: President, Undergraduate CouncilTouissant G. Losier ’04: Secretary, Black Students AssociationTimothy P. McCarthy ’93: Tutor, African-American studies and history and literatureR. Gerard McGeary ’04: Campus Outreach Director, College DemocratsOlamipe I. Okunseinde...
...Hsu: I don’t know how everyone else feels, but I think that the reason why there are tenured positions is for a certain level of intellectual freedom. The Afro-American studies department—or any ethnic studies department—should in general steer away from whatever Eurocentric standards may be used to apply to academia. And the existence of tenure and academic freedom is what allows more creativity and extension in these fields. If one person believes that a spoken word CD is not academia, then it is not in his position to pass judgment...
...grip on power. According to international press monitor Reporters Sans Frontieres, 20 governments now significantly restrict Internet access. But Web users can easily use "anonymizer" sites to circumvent the blockers and surf freely and in secret. "Our technology restricts the ability of governments to censor the Internet," says Stephen Hsu, founder and CEO of an anonymizer called SafeWeb, from where users can load a tool for blocking traces onto their browser windows before they begin surfing. "It promotes freedom of expression and the right to privacy...
There are plenty of people, Hsu included, who view the Net's role in broadening the political debate as beneficial. "New channels of expression foster the democratic process," says Hsu. But there are costs, particularly with the kinds of guerrilla tactics that the most technologically sophisticated activists have at their fingertips. Hackers erode the fabric of political debate as much as they challenge state control, says Cancer Omega, a systems administrator at attrition.org. "The U.S.-China cyberwar wasn't about politics," he says. "It was simply a high-tech version of two dogs bent on being the last to mark...