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...minority groups at Harvard consider tactics they inevitably revert to this archetypal view of the Harvard man. "Male," says the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). "White," say the Black Students Association (BSA) and La Raza, the Chicago students group. "Upper class," says the William J. Seymour Society, a Black fundamentalist Christian group concerned with issues of economic equality. "Heterosexual," says the Gay Students Association (GSA). What these groups have in common, says RUS President Sharon J. Orr '83, is that "Harvard doesn't understand...
...protests, Orr says, "We tend not to, simply because we don't have to--we have Radcliffe, and we have the alumni." RUS has a strong body of alumni who share many of its general concerns, she says. It is "always a real rush," she adds, to receive letters from alumni who have read of an RUS goal in Second Century, the Radcliffe publication, and write, "Here's a copy of the letter I sent to President...
Most groups, however, seem to fall somewhere between these two extremes. Lacking the power of RUS's alumni constituency and friends, but also lacking GSA's entrenched opposition, they design their tactics accordingly. In fact, the BSA's biggest obstacle may be the seemingly decreased urgency of the issues confronting Blacks on campus. BSA President Curtis Hairston '84 says that there has been a decline in the old and "obvious" issues. The battle for a third world student center, which rallied many minorities two years ago was resolved with the formation of the race-relations Foundation. The struggle to strengthen...
Sharon J. Orr '83, President of RUS, said yesterday that her group will request a formal definition of harassment from the Faculty Council, formation of an ad hoc committee to review grievance procedures, and eventually an open letter on the subject by President...
...RUS also criticized the College for not making public its grievance procedure in a case of sexual harassment. Because a student is told only to discuss the situation with her senior tutor, Orr said, many victims of harassment probably do not pursue their complaints further Lewis has said that four or five complaints of sexual harassment made to Senior Tutors every month are never reported to her office, Orr said...