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...March 15, FM published an opinion piece entitled "The Invasian." A few days later, on March 19, students gathered together to protest the opinion piece, the ideas contained therein and The Crimson for publishing it. I read the piece, and I cannot help but wonder why there was so much commotion. Did the author, Justin G. Fong '03, really tell Harvard students anything they could not already see with their own eyes everyday in the dining hall? Black students sit and eat and talk together. Asian students sit and eat and talk together. Athletes sit and eat and talk together...
About 50 students marched yesterday from the Science Center to The Harvard Crimson building to protest perceived ethnic stereotyping in "The Invasian," an opinion piece published in last Thursday's edition of Fifteen Minutes...
...Thursday, March 15, The Crimson published an article entitled "The Invasian" in the endpaper section of its weekend magazine, Fifteen Minutes. That article should not have run in the form in which it appeared. An article could have been written about minority self-segregation at Harvard that was thoughtful and provocative. This was not that piece...
...find it disturbing that The Crimson saw Justin G. Fong's "The Invasian" fit to print. I must admit my faith in The Crimson and its editors has been shaken for good...
...recognize Fong as a well-intentioned individual who made legitimate observations--however poorly constructed and immature his presentation--and that his apparent hypocritical sanctimony is inconsequential. That done, let us examine his closing remarks in "The Invasian" and do the piece justice by allowing his poignant last words to resonate in our hearts: "The more the Asians stick to themselves, the more alienated we feel from their community, and the more alienated they feel from our community... Can't we all just get along...