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...small jab at the head of the Motion Picture Association. Cher, whose sense of humor can only be described as epic, wore a giant feather headdress--and not a great deal more--to present one award. "As you can see," she said, "I did receive my academy booklet on how to dress as a serious actress...
...What's all this about a Third World Students Alliance report and controversy?" That is what I was asking myself just yesterday. Apparently the TWSA published a booklet concerning minority presence at Harvard-Radcliffe. I read it carefully and liked what it had to say; there appeared to be no controversy. But reading the headlines of a March 11, article in The Crimson, I find "Students Fault TWSA Report...
...mostly from the middle to upper classes. But what exactly does the report mean by "middle class"? It seems that it meant, curiously enough, a minority like Richard Zayas who wrote to The Crimson denying and attempting to demean the TWSA's convictions. Unknowingly, in the eyes of the booklet, he has incriminated himself...
...course he's not going to agree with the report, it was not intended for his approval. Rather, I say this hesitantly, it was an indictment against the authenticity of his "minoritiship" at Harvard. It seems that he has lost touch with the essence of what the booklet says. As mentioned above, the fact that Harvard attracts this type of minority (which is not "bad", but when this minority becomes the majority of the number of minorities accepted, what true minority is there?) is one of the reports' first premises on which its further condemnation of Harvard/minority relations is built...
Minority students who disagree with its interpretations and conclusions should feel free to obtain funding--perhaps with the help of the college--and do the hundreds of hours of research to put together another booklet. And, of course, they should feel free to criticize this booklet. They have no right to assume, however, that its distribution should come to a halt because it did not involve the majority of minority students...