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...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...
...credit, SAC does suggest in its grant guidelines the submission of a "short biography...to help us better evaluate the project." But apparently this portion of the application, if included, rarely embarks upon anything more than the speaker's title and place of residence. In any case, if SAC members did have Muhammad's biography during their meeting, then they have exhibited even greater irresponsibility and insensitivity than if they had simply approved the Nation of Islam grant unaware of Muhammad's past...
Expecting such and individual to limit his comments to the contribution of rap music to culture is naive at best. Even if SAC had no clue of Muhammad's past racist comments, funding a Nation of Islam speaker does anything but follow the Foundation's motto to "enhance the quality of our common life...