Word: uac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Undergraduate Admissions Council (UAC)decided to limit the number of extracurriculargroups at the pre-frosh extracurricular fairbecause of space considerations in Eliot Housedining hall, the first organizations to go wereethnic student groups...
...mail message sent to student leaders,Kovacevich, who is also the UAC co-chair, said thecouncil felt the fairest policy was "to select across-sampling of groups that tend to representextracurricular `niches' on campus." Many ethnicgroups already host their own receptions and wouldbe represented in a panel discussion of minoritygroups, Kovacevich added...
While the UAC resolved the issue by reversingits decision, student leaders said the mostimportant lesson to be learned from the crisis wasthat different student groups could cooperate...
...think people who are approaching issues froman identity point of view have much more atstake," Nguyen says. "From [the UAC's] point ofview, it was perfectly logical to exclude ethnicgroups. But we're being passionate because we seeit as discrimination. We wouldn't protest it if itwasn't discrimination...
...people we select to be greeters are enthusiastic about their Harvard experiences," said Adam R. Kovacevich '99, a UAC chair. Kovacevich said greeters rarely mention internal Harvard concerns like randomization and the Quad because they "would cause more confusion than clarification...