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...artistic community created some of Wiprud’s best moments in college. The Fishbowl was the site of many of the theatrical productions in which Wiprud took part, both on and backstage. His roles ranged from the romantic lead in “Ten Little Indians?? to the father in “Ah, Wilderness!” As for his directorial debut, Wiprud took the reins of “Murder in the Cathedral...
Despite American Indians?? unique legal, historical and social obstacles, all of which put particular burden on American Indian applicants, the College recruits potential American Indian applicants through its generalized Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, without addressing the specialized problems of American Indian recruitment. Roger Banks, the director of Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, writes in an email that Native American recruitment is a “hotly contested field in college admissions, but Harvard College works aggressively to identify, admit, and matriculate Native American students” with the assistance of HUNAP...
...addition, these two groups are linked in a particularly American sense—both have been stereotyped in film. From early Westerns to Disney’s Peter Pan, the images of “Indians?? were always distorted in ways that were never flattering. As a society, we’ve begun to come to terms with this prejudice. The term “Native Americans” has replaced its derogatory predecessors, and movies like Dances with Wolves are generally good-faith attempts at respectful re-tellings of history...
...perhaps more importantly, we have used the terms “Indians?? and “Arabs” to lump together people that are not united. Native Americans were divided into hundreds of tribes. Between many of those there were disputes; many others were ignorant of each other’s existence. In the same way, the Middle East, though populated predominantly by Arabs, is divided into many countries—some are anti-American, some are confused and chaotic, and some are our allies. And yet, I have still heard some of my (presumably educated) classmates...