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With about 60 to 70 people involved in one or another of its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), HRSFA's umbrella falls over science fiction, fantasy, role-playing games and sometimes unadulterated bizarreness...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Club Walks on the Wyld Side | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...most part, Harvard's minority student groups have chosen to be largely self-directed organizations, often leaving the Minority Students Alliance (MSA)--an umbrella group founded to bridge the gaps between groups--with few members and little role on campus...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Umbrella Minority Students Alliance Unable to Build Ethnic Solidarity | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...late 1980s, a handful of student leaders from the Asian American Association, Hillel and other minority groups founded MSA as an umbrella minority organization with the goals of "intercultural understanding" and "progressive racial action." The idea was that all minority student groups would participate in MSA events and send a representative to MSA meetings...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Umbrella Minority Students Alliance Unable to Build Ethnic Solidarity | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...fierce independence felt among most student groups make umbrella organizations difficult to sustain unless they offer members concrete benefits and advantages that couldn't be had elsewhere," says AAA Co-President Jay F. Chen '00, who is also a Crimson executive...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Umbrella Minority Students Alliance Unable to Build Ethnic Solidarity | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard Foundation...is the closest thing on campus we have to an umbrella organization, because it is the main source of funding for basically all ethnic organizations on campus," Chen says...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Umbrella Minority Students Alliance Unable to Build Ethnic Solidarity | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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