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...last night’s meeting, the council also approved its fall grant package. This semester, the council will spend over $20,000 to fund 127 student group projects ranging from those of the Harvard Texas Club to the Kuumba Singers...
...evening ended, predictably enough, with a performance by Kuumba, the university’s we’re-culturally-diverse showpiece. (As member Savannah J. Frierson ’05 put it last year in a Crimson opinion piece, speaking of another Harvard performance: “we were there only to show diversity and prove that Harvard has indeed become a welcoming institution for all kinds of people...
This raises the question of these performers’ motivations. Summers didn’t put together this deplorable show on his own. Kuumba conductor Sheldon K.X. Reid ’96 agreed to be a part of it, as did countless other student wannabe artists whose presence in this piece of propaganda seriously put their artistic integrity in doubt...
Collegium Musicum performed excerpts from Rachmaninoff’s “All Night Vigil” and Kuumba concluded the show with a traditional hymn...
Eskander’s “niches” include a volunteer director position at the Harvard Homeless Shelter, co-founding the BRYE Teen Program, working at the BRYE Tutoring Program and singing in and directing publicity for Kuumba. In addition, last spring Eskander, a neurobiology concentrator, took fives classes and worked in lab twice a week. “As a person, she does more stuff at Harvard than anyone I’ve ever seen,” says Christi D. Tran ’04, former executive vice president of PBHA...