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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...
Ethnic studies sounds good. It sounds politically correct, interesting, and legitimately academic. It also sounds very, very broad. Exactly a month ago tomorrow, the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) demonstrated in favor of "E.S." outside a lecture given by Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. Did the MSA and its associated organizations really contemplate how an E. S. department might be formed? The results could take more than a few protesting students by surprise...
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...
From "quota queens" to staunch meritocrats, no one can deny that race, once a question of principles, is now a numbers game. A recent Perspective article counted the representation of minorities among--MSA hyperactivists, hold your fire--not the Faculty (for the whole University has those figures memorized by now), but among toy dolls. Sleuthing in the aisles of Toys R-Us, Perspective found That only one of a dozen-or-so dolls was Black...
Representatives from the MSA, who usually meet with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, say they have been disappointed by Epp's inaction...