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First, the fact. In the first week of April, a member of the Kuumba Singers sent out an e-mail over the group e-mail list questioning whether the increasing number of non-blacks in the group diluted Kuumba's mission of sharing a black musical tradition. An intense e-mail debate followed, with members of the choir examining issues of diversity and inclusion vis-a-vis the possibility of the new multicultural demographics detracting from an "authentic" black experience...
...reporting of the article provoked a strong reaction from the Kuumba community on a number of counts. "Our e-mail list is absolutely not a public forum," David Brunton '97-'98, Treasurer of the group, explains. "Kuumba is like a big family, and to the minds of the choir members, e-mails on the list are informal and intimate. There are no guarded responses here, like there would be if it were intended for public use." Members also contend it is easy to tell which posts are public--like an announcement of concert times and venues--and which are meant...
...record." Crimson President Matthew Granade '99 adds, "anyone can check who's on the list--they know we're on the list. If you want a private list, you can close lists, this was an open list." And finally, The Crimson claims it also had a source within Kuumba forward them all the original e-mails. "It's like a University source leaking us a short list of tenure candidates in advance. We can then use the document," Granade says...
...does make a difference, however, that this issues concerns e-mail and not an official document. As Kuumba members point out, e-mail are incredibly easy to forge. They can also be casually forwarded and are disseminated much more loosely than official documents. If you cannot get the author to confirm an e-mail, does it constitute a valid source at all? Jennifer 8. Lee, vice president of The Crimson, concedes, "There is an additional responsibility to check on the source of an e-mail: there is a bigger element of gullibility. E-mail treads a tenuous line between phone...
...Kuumba is an incredible organization, withpeople who really do care about each other,"Benvenutti said