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...suggested that high test scores for minority students and women often overpredict academic performance. To show their displeasure, more than 200 students marched through the Yard and demonstrated outside Massachusetts Hall, presenting Bok with eight demands and threatening to occupy the building. The president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, received a death threat and a rape threat for her "political activities." These events corresponded with a number of national racially motivated incidents, including a cross-burning at Williams College. In response to the death threat, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the Justice Department, visited...
...Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Association, said yesterday Third World groups last fall asked Bok to address each of the demands made at the demonstration and to forward alternative proposals for those demands he disagreed with...
...Harvard, Lydia Jackson, president of the university's Black Students Association, found her office calendar defaced with racist slogans, including TEN DAYS TO KILL and K.K.K. UNITE. She also received several frightening phone calls, one of which threatened her with rape if she did not "stop creating trouble and making noise on campus...
...Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Organization, agrees. "I think the Third World Center Organization and other student organizations will enthusiastically welcome the additional support" from the new student government, which would be charged with dispersing more than half its annual budget to other student groups, she says...
...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...