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Sociology Professor Jason A. Kaufman ’93 was denied tenure last week, thwarting his department’s first attempt to nominate a junior faculty member in over a decade and threatening to leave Harvard without one of its most popular sociologists as early as next year...
...Jason C.B. Lee ’08, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), objects to the way that some students characterize social groups based along racial and ethnic lines. “Segregation has a negative connotation, like ‘black students are imposing this extreme negative on themselves. Segregation is terrible and now they’re doing it to themselves.’ We kind of balk at the term ‘self-segregation’ because we feel good about what we do here, how we interact with each other...
...predominant question is one of principle: is “self-segregation” wrong? Is it harmful? Periodically, Harvard students have called for an end to the self-segregation that ethnic groups supposedly perpetuate. In a 2005 Crimson column Jason L. Lurie ’05 wrote, “Unlike the segregation that was forced on African-Americans in the South before the 1960s, self-segregation is instituted voluntarily by the members of the affected group. It is facilitated here at Harvard by College-endorsed student organizations which serve as central locations at which to meet other members...
...many Harvard students, groups like BlackCAST and the Asian-American Dance Troupe prove a much-needed venue for the intersection of minority concerns and their artistic endeavors. Jason C.B. Lee ’08 stresses the significance of showcasing the work of minorities in the performing arts: “There’s a rich artistic legacy within the black community that has produced defining works of art, whether it’s musically or in theater,” he says. “Having a forum to produce or reproduce these types of cultural expression within...
Captain Brendan Byrne, junior Taylor Meehan, and senior Jason Brown took part in the second annual Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League (HCBL) last summer, spending six weeks playing baseball about as far away as you can get from Cambridge and O’Donnell Field without leaving the United States...