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...about 6 o'clock, Jackson stands up and puts on a brown leather jacket. We get ready to leave. Jackson says, "You hungry? You Like Chinese?" We drive down Hollywood Boulevard in a big blue Mercedes convertible to his favorite Chinese restaurant, Ting Ho, in Hollywood. Two plainclothes policemen are frisking a white punk in the parking lot. We eat steaming platefuls of shrimp and chicken with Chinese pea pods. "No one cooks at home," he says. "I'm the only one who eats meat. The rest eat only vegetables." Jackson is very shy. He has no idea...
Other minority groups, however, have opted to work with the Foundation, despite some disagreement with its philosophy. Andrew S. Ting '83, former president of the Asian-American Association, says that while his group would like to see a Third World Center established, they would not boycott the Foundation...
...going to cut off our noses to spite our faces," says Ting. Last semester Ting's group received $1,000 from the Foundation for a Japanese theater production. The Foundation has also provided funding to American Indians at Harvard, as well as an Asian American women's group, and several Latin American cultural and health organizations...
More substantive complaints are directed not at the logistics, but the philosophy of seeking outside funding for student groups. Several undergraduate minority leaders argue that groups should not have to plow through the red tape but should instead receive a guarantee in favor of lump-sum funding Ting notes that whenever his group undertakes a project. "I worry all the time if it is economically feasible...
...Ting said that, viewed pragmatically, minority backing might not be an asset to a candidate. "The problem with that is that people who run are supposed to represent their House," he said, "and if a person is elected, his first duty is to the House...