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...leaders of the Asian American Association (AAA), we feel that the press on this campus has not made a sincere attempt to inform the public of significant issues affecting not only Asian-Americans, but also the Harvard community as a whole...
...example is the 14th annual East Coast Asian Student Union (ECASU) conference, hosted by the Harvard-Radcliffe AAA. This three-day conference, which took place from February 28 through March 1, drew over 550 students from 50 colleges nationwide...
...press further aggravates this problem when it misrepresents its sources of information and, therefore, misleads its readers. People reading the front-page article in The Crimson about prank calls may have been led to believe that the AAA "has not heard about the calls and has no plans to address the issue...
This is simply not true. The AAA Steering Committee constantly focuses much of its time and energy on these issues in the belief that fighting racism is an on-going process. Our response to racial incidents on campus is a contiguous one, and we are greatly disturbed at being dismissed so easily by inaccurate reporting...
...AAA condemn any policies and actions that have marginalized Asians and Asian Americans in the past. This is why we are so concerned today with the rebirth of such outrages across the nation and at Harvard itself...