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Third, the quotes from the position paper submitted by a pair of candidates for co-president in our organization misrepresented their ideas. Their comprehensive five-page plan, including strategies for strengthening AAA's political voice and ties with other non-Asian minority groups, and adding a program to the Model U.N. Conferences, was summarized as plans for "long nights of Pictionary...
Note that Hsia, in his editorial, used three examples of the activities of Asian-American organizations as evidence for a blanket condemnation of all minority organizations. Hsia's editorial lacks illustrations to back up his claim against non-Asian minority groups and displays a misunderstanding of the multi-dimensional activities of Asian American organizations, showing he made no effort to determine whether his presumptions about minority organizations had basis in fact. This is irresponsibile editorializing at its worst. Lewison...
...more blatant example took place at the beginning of the year, when Asian-American organizations from Harvard and Wellesley co-sponsored a Blind Date Banquet, pairing students from each school for an evening of dinner and dancing. Although the banquet was open to members of all groups, few non-Asian students participated. The result was that the event became just another retreat from normal, integrated activity...
...Veronica Wong '88, the current president of Harvard AAA, said that the program is not restricted to Asian-American students, but that non-Asian students have attended in the past and are welcome to attend today...
Wang said that part of the reason that Asians were misrepresented is that Hollywood scriptwriters are non-Asian, and therefore tend to write about their own experiences...