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...groundswell of support for a minority students center increases, College administrators remain skeptical. The issue of a multicultural center has been in and out of the spotlight of campus politics for almost 30 years. In the past the Black Students Association has pushed for a "Third World" students center or an African-American cultural center, but the University has steadfastly refused to support the plans...
...College-commissioned committee led by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes, scuttled proposals for a Third World students center, claiming it would polarize the campus environment and undermine the College's House system as the intellectual and social centers on campus...
...Hillel is more similar to the Catholic students' center than a Third World center," said Epps. "Therefore, I do not have the same concerns about the activities of Hillel that I would otherwise...
Over a decade ago, Harvard scuttled proposals for a minority "Third World Center," claiming it would polarize the campus. This spring, a minority students center is on the list of demands from the Coalition for Diversity. Now the coalition points to the success of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, which has recently begun construction on an $8 million building. Coalition members say minority groups...
...Russia would become routine affairs, the participants no longer meeting as adversaries and their decisions no longer worth banner headlines. When Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin meet in Vancouver this weekend, the tensions between the two countries indeed will be gone. Instead of bickering over missile throw weights and Third World hot spots, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin will spend most of their seven hours together poring over loan schedules, monetary policy and investment strategies as they map out a program of aid from the West for the East...