Word: msa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Minority Student Alliance (MSA) Co-Chair JeanL. Tom '96 agrees, "In 1969 the spirit of the agewas entirely different," she says. "Now I seepervasive apathy where students are more concernedwith their personal success and not too many arewilling to struggle for a cause...
...MSA member Xavier A. Gutierrez '95 says he isdoubtful that the ethnic studies movement coulddraw the same degree of participation and supportthat Black students did in the late 1960s...
...example, when MSA members protested thepaucity of tenured minority faculty members at aJunior Parents Weekend event this year, only 20students picketed. In contrast, the demand forAfro-Am garnered the support of the Students for aDemocratic Society, which organized the UniversityHall takeover, as well as other protesters oncampus...
...says the MSA has concrete demands andexpects that the group will submit a recommendedtimetable to University officials in the next fewweeks...
Certainly, the ideas offered above do not paint a pretty picture. But an E.S. department must be fair to all ethnicities, given its name. Perhaps a more reasonable alternative can be found. The MSA has other, admirable goals, such as the hiring of more minority faculty members, hopefully in all disciplines. And someone has to take Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 down a peg now and then. But E.S., though it has the ring of a good idea, could in reality be a quagmire that would only spawn more controversy...