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...response to our proposed amendment, the officers of AAA said they agreed with the "principle" of making AAA more representative while at the same time criticizing the "infeasibility" of our proposal due to the large size of AAA's membership. We wonder, however, how these officers can demand that we lower the "majority" required to pass a political motion any further (below the four-ninths threshold stipulated in our voting system) and still agree "in principle" to the concept of democratic representation...
...respect for the diversity of opinion that exists among Asian Americans, our adherence to democratic principles, and our shared disdain for false advertising, we ask concerned members of Harvard College, both Asian and non-Asian, to join us in asking the leaders of AAA either to implement an honest system of democratic deliberation and voting or to change its misnomer of a name to something that more accurately conveys the un-representativeness of the organization. To put it bluntly, the leaders of AAA are outright wrong to think that they can engage in political activism without political responsibility. Daniel...
...writing in response to your March 16th article titled "New Asian Group to Evaluate AAA Views." Many of the statements within this article and past articles have contained misleading or erroneous information concerning the nature of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA), and I feel these statements need to be clarified...
First, I would like to respond to the comments made by the four students comprising the Harvard-Radcliffe Asians for Fair Representation (HRAFR). The article states that, "HRAFR proposed AAA needs the approval from...two-thirds of all members, roughly 200 students, before they take a stance on any political issue. "The number, in fact, needed to meet the two-thirds quorum proposed by HRAFR is actually 400 (the general membership of AAA is over 600). While this would an theory be a wonderful idea, I think most students at Harvard realize that making it mandatory for 400 students...
...AAA is not some monolithic umbrella institution run by an oligarchic cabal, which unilaterally decide all its policies. Rather, AAA is a single organization of 600 students, separate from all the other Asian ethnic groups, who in the interest of expediency entrust a diverse body of 14 students to carry out the 20 or so events AAA holds every year. And in many cases, like the protest during Junior Parents' Weekend, AAA must act quickly and boldly in order to insure that the voices of Asian American students are heard. This is one of the main purposes of having...