Word: yeh
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Knowles called the meeting early in the semester in response to an e-mail sent by Foundation secretary Ethan Y. Yeh ’03 asking Knowles to participate in the ongoing discussions regarding ethnic studies...
...next step would be to focus in on the actual proposals and decide which ones are feasible,” Yeh said...
...ethnic studies on Feb. 13 was part of an increasingly vocal campaign to reform Harvard’s curriculum. Though standing committees and certificates are the subjects of debate for now, the real question is whether programs related to issues of identity will receive full department status. Ethan Y. Yeh ’03, a member of the Ethnic Studies Coalition, has been especially active in seeking departments in Latino and Latin American studies, Native-American studies and Asian-American studies, as well as in “area studies” of regions such as Africa and South Asia...
...that isn’t what some ethnic studies advocates are calling for. Yeh argues that the Committee on Ethnic Studies should notify students of courses “in Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies,” not on the role of identity in European fiction. However, he also sees ethnic studies as examining “the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality”—categories that recommend a general approach, rather than a handful of departments divided along ethnic lines...
...Yeh said students did not approach Underwood to seek his support on the ethnic studies issue. Matt Damon, Class of 1992, signed a petition in support of ethnic studies when he came to Harvard to host the show...