Word: msa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most part, Harvard's minority student groups have chosen to be largely self-directed organizations, often leaving the Minority Students Alliance (MSA)--an umbrella group founded to bridge the gaps between groups--with few members and little role on campus...
...Multicultural dialogue is not being furthered as much as it can be," says Michael M. Espiritu '01, one of the few returning MSA members. "And it's because we have difficulty bringing groups together...
...late 1980s, a handful of student leaders from the Asian American Association, Hillel and other minority groups founded MSA as an umbrella minority organization with the goals of "intercultural understanding" and "progressive racial action." The idea was that all minority student groups would participate in MSA events and send a representative to MSA meetings...
...decade later, neither of those goals have been accomplished. Most minority student groups have turned inward for political activism, and some of the leaders of those groups are questioning the effectiveness of the MSA...
...MSA is completely futile when it comes to pursuing its goals," says Grace Y. Shieh '99, former president of the Asian American Association (AAA). "Therefore, none of the minority groups are going to send representatives to it." Shieh was also Cultural Chair of MSA during the 1996-1997 school year...