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Harvard's Student Employment Office (SEO) has received federal funding for literacy projects run by PBHA and by the House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program as part of America's Reading Challenge--Clinton's effort to promote literacy among grade-school students, Bahat said...
Most superficially, I am disappointed that my first exploration of the summer job market can only be described as an unmitigated disaster. My trip to Harvard Hall that night was in response to an ad that appeared the day before in The Crimson. It read, "SEO Wall Street Program Information Meeting: Hear about the program that places Harvard Students in Investment Banks, Consulting Firms, and Corporate Law Firms on Wall Street for the Summer." That banner was followed simply by a date, location and time...
Returning to my room after my ill-fated trip to Harvard Hall, I assumed that I had made an idiotic mistake. I grabbed the ad off of my bulletin board and searched for any mention of the program's special nature. I had assumed that SEO stood for Student Employment Office (it actually refers to Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, an organization based in New York), and upon re-examination saw no reason to blame myself for the evening's embarrassment...
...deny that racial barriers still exist and must somehow be combated. However, I do not believe that the way to combat such barriers is to initiate exclusive venues of promotion. The SEO Wall Street Program and others that stem from a similar philosophy are fundamentally discriminatory...
...Harvard Hall I was personally informed that my desire to work on Wall Street and my qualifications to do so were irrelevant. I was not a "student of color" and, therefore, I was out of luck. I imagine that in the minds of those who support programs like SEO, I simply went home, called up my uncle on the stock exchange, got a job and retired to a posh country club for the evening. Unfortunately, the truth is that I must search through volumes of binders at OCS and actually perform the pedestrian task of sending out resumes...