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...Even if groups aren't coming to us we're stilltrying to increase our membership in thosegroups," says Caroline T. Nguyen '00, co-presidentof...
...junior biology concentrator at the time of her death, was stabbed 45 times by her roommate, Sinedu Tadesse '96, on the morning of May 28, 1995. After fatally wounding Ho and injuring 26 year-old visitor Thao Nguyen, Tadesse hanged herself in the shower of her Dunster H-21 suite...
Anyone, Vietnamese or otherwise, with an interest in HVA should certainly be welcomed at their events, as at the events of every ethnic group on campus. However, Nguyen's extreme view denies the very diversity of the Harvard campus that he clearly supports. If every ethnic group is the same, where is the diversity? One might argue that the diversity lies in the events themselves, rather than the people who attend them; however, when an event is designed to educate an ignorant public, it inevitably loses some of its authenticity for members of the ethnic group running it. The event...
Social events run by ethnic groups fall under particular attack by Nguyen, especially if the publicity for these events is targeted only at members of the ethnicity. However, the ethnic dining hall tables that Nguyen cites bespeak another critical function of ethnic groups: to enable members of the same ethnicity to meet each other and develop friendships--in short, to interact socially. Harvard is a big and intimidating place, and many undergraduates find support in their smaller ethnic communities. Nguyen suggests that this is wrong; I assert that it is natural. Just as knitting circles are formed for people...
Each ethnic group is a square in the multicultural patchwork that is Harvard, each with its own bright colors and designs. Nguyen, in his attack on the "self-segregation" of ethnic groups on campus, attempts to mute the brilliance of our individual colors by blending them together into a banal, uniform fusion--and he does this, ironically enough, in the name of multiculturalism. BETH A. GOLDSTEIN...