Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University should support and publicize events of all official student organizations during freshman week to introduce each incoming class to the full range of extra-curricular college life. It should also encourage all students to join in non-separatist cultural and ethnic experiences. Fundamentally, the Freshman Dean's Office should enhance bonds among students--not accentuate divisions. The FDO's revised calendar, a laudable step in the right direction, furthers these basic goals...
...Blacks sit at the same takes together at meals and attend the same parties as a good thing, while many whites see the same situation as a symptom of racial polarization and terrorism. Black students, binding together in an affirmation of cultural solidarity, are often viewed by whites as "separatist." And whites, not understanding Blacks' need for simple peer support, come across to Black as racist and patronzing...
According to Freeman. College policy in the late 1970s shifted from encouraging community spirit among minorities on campus to instead condemning "separatist" structures...
...LONG WRANGLE last spring over minority orientation events during freshman week raised substantial questions about the college's policy on minority relations. Once a cosponsor of these activities, Harvard withdrew its support two years ago, calling the events "separatist" and leaving minority student organizers without official publicity or funding for their programs. Although most recent discussion has focused on whether to list the events in the official freshman week calendar further review should turn to the possibility of active College endorsement: minority student groups are hard pressed to bear the burden singlehandedly of organizing these valuable activities. Harvard College, which...
...LONG WRANGLE last spring over minority orientation events during freshman week raised substantial questions about the college's policy on minority relations. Once a cosponsor of these activities. Harvard withdrew its support two years ago, calling the events "separatist" and leaving minority student organizers without official publicity or funding for their programs. Although most recent discussion has focused on whether to list the events in the official freshman week calendar further review should turn to the possibility of active College endorsement; minority student groups are hard pressed to bear the burden singlehandedly of organizing these valuable activities. Harvard College, which...