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This "division of labor" tactic has made progress in the development of an ethnic studies program, with a subcommittee of Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell's Educational Policy Committee at work forging a proposal...
Murphy said, however, that "prefrosh" weekends can be an important part of the recruitment strategy. "The tactic is to get them excited and committed before they hear about other schools and financial aid packages," she said...
...Serbs have found an amazing solution: they feel sorry for themselves. They marinate in self-pity. In their own minds, they have solved their formidable moral problem by declaring themselves the injured party. An artful, if disgraceful display of jujitsu; this is a tactic one encounters in wife beaters and child abusers, who ingeniously manage to convince themselves, if not the authorities, that they were driven to it by the terrible behavior of their victims. A filthy conscience often goes to hide in the refuge of self- pity...
...this way, the filmmakers employ "the fear of chaos, of a disillusionment of social order" to establish the need for social change, a tactic that does little to improve racial equality, Carby said...
Another divisive tactic is the coalition's demand for an ethnic studies concentration. Ethnic studies does not belong in the Core, as the coalition recently admitted, and it does not belong as a separate department. Ethnic studies should be referred to correctly as history--that is, American history. Harvard certainly needs more and better history courses, especially those dealing with immigrant groups and the role of minorities in the United States' development. But demanding unreasonable, impractical measures does nothing to rally support for ethnic studies as a concept...