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...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...
...MSA's first meeting of this year, only five people showed up; at its second, attendees numbered nine. Co-Chairs Sujit M. Raman '00 and Ethel B. Branch '01 say they are concerned about the low turnout but remain optimistic...
...turnout or not, MSA is busily planning its first event of the year, a follow-up to last year's hugely successful affirmative action debate, which drew 1,500 students. So far, Professor Nathan Glazer has been confirmed for the event, scheduled for this Thursday...