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...oversight regarding ethnic diversity on the panels last March resulted in a 50-student protest at one of the panel discussions, during which students distributed a flyer criticizing "institutionalized racism" at Harvard. The flyer, entitled "The Peculiar Institution," was the first official act of a new coalition of student minority groups...
...incredibly beautiful, idiosyncratic sort of space with very peculiar acoustics," Nash said. "It is one of the few theaters in the world in which you can stand with your back to the wall and whisper and still be audible...
...most intriguing and powerful character in the story is not Hang, but her father's sister, Aunt Tam. To Hang, Aunt Tam is generous and caring, yet frightening and overbearing; her presence further complicates Hang's short adolescence. The peculiar relationship between Tam and Hang's mother escalates into a rivalry to perpetuate the separate family lines. In Aunt Tam's character, the author manages to capture the essence of bitterness and hope in survival...
...case of Angela Davis illustrates the peculiar selectivity of the BGLSA's moralizing. The BGLSA actually co-sponsored Davis' appearance at Harvard despite her history as an outspoken apologist for Castro's Cuba, a regime which has rounded up homosexuals and put them in camps...
...coalition, an alliance of nine campus minority organizations, was formed over a month ago in response to the alleged lack of minority representation at a Junior Parents' Week- end Panel and issued a flyer titled "The Peculiar Institution" that outlined their demands...