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...play vital roles in the lives of minority students. Officials and students at these schools say they cannot envision their university without one, and they agree that Harvard should establish a Third World center. "Harvard can take a strong, leading place in the area of Third World centers," Pat Romney, director of Yale's Black/Afro-American center, says...
...center, Yale has a center for Puerto Rican students, while Asian-Americans and Chicanos share one. They all receive operating funds from the budget of the dean of student affairs, and programming funds from membership fees. It costs an undergraduate $26 per year to join the Afro-American center. Romney is responsible to the dean, and a board composed of faculty, administrators and students governs the center...
...Romney also stresses that the purpose of Yale's various centers is not to isolate students. "We talk of a 'successful' minority student as one who can operate well in either environment," she says, adding, "Since there's always pressure to be assimilated, a minority student has to be presented with options...
...trying to set up a Third World center here emphasize that the facility would prove an "option" for nonminority students as well. Jackson says, "We don't view the proposal as our own little island. A Third World center would be neutral ground for the entire University community." But Romney says whites at Yale have not fully accepted the Afro-Am center. "There's a lot of resentment--essentially, the issue is a primitive one. White students resent "Black students on campus...
Possibly the most cherished quote to come out of New Hampshire was Eugene McCarthy's epitaph for George Romney, the Michigan governor whose highly-rated candidacy had fallen apart after he admitted being "brainwashed" by the Pentagon on Vietnam. Did McCarthy think the August 1967 remark had destroyed Romney's chances? "Well...er no, not really," replied the Senator. "Anyway, I think in that case a light rinse would have been sufficient.'" (Romney "kept on campaigning in the same way a dead man's fingernails keep growing," wrote Timothy Crouse '68 in The Boys on the Bus--but withdrew shortly...