Word: protesting
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...also received over 500 signatures, including that of the professor of Sociology 60 ("Race and Ethnicity in America"), in endorsement of our cause. With such positive reactions and effective results, the editorial's criticism that the weekend was an "inappropriate forum" for our protest proves weak and unfounded...
...editorial is also wrong in its characterization of the protest as "half-hearted." The devotion by busy students of two weekend days to the active expression of their grievance and an attempt to educate their parents and peers seems far from half-hearted...
While we concede that it might have been planned earlier than a few days before Parents Weekend, the two days of protest still reflected many preceding hours of planning and heated argument over how to best carry out the protest, refuting Richard Gardner's claim that it was "a very last-second sort of thing." (Indeed, last year's protest, decided the night before, was much more "last-second...
...that "the students haven't done much until now" displays the editorial board's ignorance of the fact that minority student leaders have been meeting regularly and have exchanged letters with Dean Knowles requesting information about the minority faculty hiring process and the Visiting Scholars Program. The weekend's protest thus reflected a culmination of a semester of inter-group cooperation and low profile activism, hardly the hasty, half-baked production the editorial paints it to be. Perhaps most disturbing is the editorial's assertion that "the protesters should, if anything, be pleased with certain recent events." Implicit in this...
This sort of narrow-minded thinking merely affirms further our decision to protest. We organizers feared that in allowing the anniversary of last year's Junior Parents Weekend protest go by in silence and passivity, we would in effect be signaling to the administration that we were indeed appeased--the position and editorial seems to suggest we take--and we are not. While we applaud the hiring of West, we have a hard time seeing how his appointment will serve the Harvard student who is interested in Asian-American history or Native-American literature. We still feel that there...