Word: integrationist
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Although most of the campus's groups date back to the late 1960s, student leaders describe the Black extracurricular climate in the past few years as having been different from even the late 1970s. The College's integrationist race relations policy coupled with pervasive apathy among all students, has made minority involvement in mainstream political and cultural groups more common, students and officials believe. And a cooling of divisions within the Black community also makes extracurricular involvement more fluid today than it has been in past years, students...
...Kuumba and Black CAST for bringing students of all races together and proving a forum for the expression of cultural diversity. This support was instrumental in the formation of the race relations Foundation in 1981. Harvard's response to the demands for a Third World center which explicitly encourages integrationist efforts by minority students and whites. Many minority groups have boycotted the Foundation's offer of funding, following Harvard's unwillingness to establish a center catering solely to minority interests...
...explained: "Harvard College recognizes the racial differences in its student population and nevertheless has clear and specific integrationist goals:...We do not seek to respond to the needs of categories of students, but rather to the special combination of needs each individual student presents...
Regardless of how one feels about Harvard's integrationist goals, one cannot help but feel extreme disappointment at the hesitant and contradictory handling of the Black guide issue. Harvard's dean of students and dean of the College gave the Brown University group two entirely different reasons for Harvard's conservative refusal. This made one thing clear: There was not one good reason to withhold in the first place...
Being an old-fashioned integrationist and an optimist about the capacity of the current generation of young Americans to rid American life of its hoary racist ways, I would suggest to the Seymour Society that they give some thought to this endeavor. Instead of pursuing the route of other all-Black organizations existing at Harvard--and we have too many already--intensifying the already excessive isolation of white and Black student experiences here, why not strike out a new course for once...