Word: ksa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Nam and Ryou both say the goals of KSA and KACC overlapped significantly, they acknowledge that the existence of two groups forced students to join one or the other, causing a divide in the community that, they say, ultimately was detrimental to the goals of both organizations...
Last year, students from the KSA and KCAA, as well as those on Yisei and in the Chun-sa dance troupe, began to question the split they had inherited, unconvinced of the need for multiple groups aimed at the same goal of fostering community...
Leaders of all four groups participated in planning the merger. "The idea emerged through informal discussions among members of the groups last summer," says Sang S. Park '98, one founding member of KA and former board member of Yisei and KSA...
While the current Korean student body seems to be reacting positively to the merger, Ryou says some of the leaders of KACC and KSA--who have graduated--were against the change. "The people who were involved in KSA and KACC were really committed to their respective groups; some devoted their whole college careers to their respective organization," Ryou says...
Ryou says the change is particularly noticeable in the interactions of the Korean first-years with each other. "They're all friends--I can see who would fall under the [former] KSA or KACC categories, but they're all friends," Ryou said. "I'm not saying the formation of KA is solely responsible for this. But I do know there would have been some splits among the freshman without...