Word: sac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SAC'S CO-CHAIRS, Muneer I. Ahmad '93 and Natosha O. Reid '93, offered explanations, but they are unacceptable. Ahmed cites "the need to place speakers in their context. If Muhammad was speaking on anti-Semitism he would not have been funded...
...opinions from his or her topic of discussion is ridiculous. Sure Muhammad was part of a program on Black rap music, but could he be expected not to focus on the divisive doctrines of the Nation of Islam during his speech? After all, he's their campus representative. Would SAC grant money for David Duke to speak about African-American or Jewish culture, ignoring his Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi past...
...research speakers receiving Foundation grant money would be asking too much, I suppose, from the student group. SAC Members recall little, if any, debate accompanying the rapper/racist Chuck D/Conrad Muhammad project proposal at the group's February 10 grants meeting...
Perhaps the large number of applications would overwhelm a student group. But read the following description of SAC found in the Foundation's booklet: "[SAC's] primary responsibility is to review student grant requests and award funding with the approval of the Faculty Advisory Committee." It's not too much to expect SAC to perform its "primary responsibility" in a thorough and respectable manner...
...also not unreasonable to expect SAC to conduct in-depth checks on speakers under consideration, seeing that the group may pay the individual for coming to Harvard. Even our parents occasionally want to know what they're getting for their $20000-plus tuition bill...