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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said much the same thing in rejecting the request of the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) for a multicultural center. Epps replied to the MSA in a letter, saying that a "multicultural" center is at odds with the College's "general philosophy of race relations...
However, the leaders of MSA say they want a multicultural student center in the true sense of pluralism, one that would "facilitate exchange between all students, regardless of their ethnic or cultural backgrounds," as they wrote in their letter to these pages...
...grounds of expediency that we support the College's reluctance to create a multicultural student center. As Epps said in his letter to the MSA, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations was set up by the College to promote racial and cultural understanding through meetings, speakers and events...
...Harvard Foundation is lacking in this mission, perhaps the MSA can suggest ways to reform the organization, but we believe that the activities of the student center would essentially duplicate those of the foundation...
While we are generally supportive of the MSA's desire to move existing ethnic student groups' offices closer together, office space at the College is at a premium. The new Loker Commons will avoid granting student groups offices on a permanent basis; the facilities will instead be available for use at specific times. These spaces are, of course, open for the use of the MSA and ethnic student groups, as they are to the Harvard community as a whole...