Word: lydia
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...November 20, Lydia P. Jackson '82, President of the Black Students Association (BSA) received a death threat...
...students' concerns. Yet in the aftermath of the Klitgaard report and the recent threats, never has a climate of understanding been more necessary. Perhaps White students who feel that minority students are overreacting, might take a cue from the efforts in the past few weeks of Jane Bock and Lydia Jackson who have worked under the most intense of personal and political pressures to promote a climate of awareness and tolerance within the University. Bock's appeals to the producer s of a show at the Hasty Pudding Theater to change a number that stereotyped an Asian American character resulted...
Both Moramarco and Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Association and a resident of Currier House, said they think Currier is the House with the 25-per-cent Black population...
...Lydia Rios and Walter Clair '77, both fourth-year students, said a lack of role models on the faculty is another important reason students might be deterred from seeking faculty careers. "Role models rub off on you. A minority student sees the things a white role model is doing and says, "I want to teach,' but, as a minority, he may be discouraged from this," Clair says. He adds, however, that despite the obstacles a minority student faces in deciding to pursue an academic career, the problem does not lie only in getting students to do this. Clair does...
...about 300 students gathered in the Eliot-Kirkland-Winthrop triangle and then marched to the stadium--as a sign of how serious the fears of Black and other minority students have become, fears no longer only of discrimination but of overt racism and racist violence. In the past month, Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), has been the object of both a rape threat and a death threat. The BSA offices were broken into and racist slogans scrawled on the organization's calendar...