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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...
Leaders of Harvard’s cultural organizations view their groups in terms of two ideal values: community and comfort. Students look to these groups as a source of warmth and familiarity in a Harvard campus that can seem overwhelming. Lee describes the BSA as “a support network for all students, in an otherwise isolating and cold place.” Likewise, Jimmy Zhao ’08, co-president of the Asian American Association (AAA), says one of the club’s goals “is to provide a community for our members...
Today, BSA President Lee asserts that randomization might even increase the time Black students spend with one another: “It seems almost counter-intuitive. Because we’re separated, we work that much harder to come together. At a school like this, I do recognize the importance of getting to know members of the black community...
...spent, as some claim, primarily with other minorities. “As involved as I am with the Black community, most of my time at Harvard [I am] in the minority, dealing with non-black students, with all my academic settings and all my housing,” says Lee. “I think the nature of Harvard does not allow as much segregation as it thinks.” And Lee should know: he appreciates the relative diversity of Harvard after transferring from the historically Black Morehouse College...
...minority involvement in these groups, but one big reason is the time many minority students devote to their ethnic communities. “When I’ve talked to various leaders and they try to increase Black participation in groups, there are limitations,” says Lee. “The Black community at Harvard is extremely active. It doesn’t leave as much time for me to comp the Crimson or be heavily involved in the Dems. Instead of being on The Crimson, you might write for the BSA’s literary organization...