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...pleased that Dean Epps Special Committee has concluded that I acted properly, and without racial bias, in presenting the Society of Arab Students (SAS) grant application to the Harvard Foundation Student Advisory Committee (SAC) last semester...
...grant application--submitted by Laila Sahyoun, then-president of the SAS--was the victim of its own poor preparation. Perhaps it was also the victim of the inconsistent application of grant guidelines by last year's SAC, of which I was not a member. But it was not the victim of any racial bias or mishandling on my part...
...presentation of the grant application had indeed been biased or otherwise unfair, the SAC undoubtedly would have reversed its decision on the grant when one of the SAC co-chairs represented the grant application before the full SAC in an appeal in November. But at that time the full SAC voted to reaffirm its earlier decision on the grant. Thus, on two separate occasions, following the grants guidelines, with different SAC members representing the grant each time, the full SAC--not just me--decided to fund only partially the grant application...
...museum is an arresting street presence, while his naked nuclear family inside -- father, mother, daughter and son, all exactly the same size -- is distinctly spooky in a way that derives from Magritte. Byron Kim's Belly Paintings, 1992, representing six different hues of skin, each a gracefully swollen sac of solid color, are beautiful metaphors of the human body...
...recent months, the Foundation has been criticized by members of its SAC for not doing enough to improve campus race relations. Members have said the SAC has been paralyzed because they believe the Foundation may be dissolved in Epps' reorganization efforts...