Word: students
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Testing one's concept of a film's symbolism on the student in the neighboring seat in a Visual Arts course...
...short, there is simply a plethora of contexts and circumstances in which each black student at Harvard can end the black isolation that chokes off the full range of benefits that are available at white colleges. There is no sense in waiting for all black students to move to embrace these variegated success-patterns as a precondition for any particular black doing so. There is, after all, a massive weight of habit surrounding the past decade of black solidariy behavior, and nowhere has it been overcome tout de suite...
...some 30 to 40 years earlier was insignificant by comparison. Seldom were there, for example, more than 20 blacks Harvard in any given year during that era. A more fundamental difference, however, was that the small numbers precluded a pattern of all-black peer relationships and pressures. Each black student was forced, therefore, to navigate the unique achievement norms and success-patterns without the intervention of black solidarity agencies and attitudes...
There is, I think no single blueprint by which to overcome black students' isolation from success-oriented relationships at white colleges. Any such blueprint, moreover, would be unacceptable, because it would involve a herd-like strategy of response to the problem, lacking imagination and spontaneity. The best way out of the thumb-sucking ethnic cul-desac tht characterizes a major sector of black students here and elsewhere should involve each student defining his or her own cosmopolitan or transcultural strategy on white campuses. Innovation and uniqueness of response should be the hallmark of a new era of transcrultural behavior...
...fact, Winthrop says he feels the chairmen of some of the more powerful Student Assembly committees will have more influence than he will have chairing the Student Assembly proceedings...