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...people of color--white professors can and should teach ethnic groups' histories, literature, etc., and advise their students of color--but of breadth. Most minority faculty can illuminate their presentations of, for example, American history with a parallel account of how this history was perceived by members of an outgroup, being a member of such an outgroup, whereas a white professor probably could not. And, being of color, minority faculty can also provide a degree of empathy to students of color that white professors, probably not having experienced racism first-hand, most likely cannot...
Some individuals insist any discrimination is wrong, as witness Jeanne Wirka, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, quoted in the January-February 1985 issue of Harvard Magazine: "The problem with clubs is that they are denigrating to the outgroup in general. It's too bad that the issue has become 'should the clubs admit women?' The point is that the clubs should exclude everybody [sic]--they simply shouldn't be here, and Harvard shouldn't have anything to do with them." Jake Stevens '86, a member of the Committee on College Life, puts it less broadly, "The Committee acts...
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