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...White Women’s Collective. Such an organization would make a lot of people uncomfortable, but there’s not much danger of that happening. If, as some leaders of other ethnic student organizations say, white students self-segregate as much as anyone else, they are not conscious of doing so. The Crimson survey found that while Harvard’s campus has some white communities that identify strongly with an ethnicity (the Jewish community, for example), 26.3 percent of the 274 white students surveyed said their race/ethnicity was not at all a part of their identity (versus...
...only Harvard group he’s active in that has six black men. “I definitely don’t consider myself having picked these people because they were black,” Lynch says. “It wasn’t a self-conscious ‘I want to live with a group of black guys.’” At the same time, Lynch admits, race formed a basis of shared experience between them and was a factor, though not the final determinant, in their decision to live together...
Those who would like to see a more integrated Harvard often talk like Jackson and Fong. They say that students should reach out, become more open-minded and not be intimidated. What they have on their side is little more than rhetoric, though: They wish everyone would make a conscious effort to diversify. But there’s little evidence that that will happen in the near future: Those who defend self-segregation, though they may object to the term itself, offer a number of concrete reasons why students come together in ethnically separate groups. Such social behavior is understandable...
...chemistry students. “I would inevitably be the only woman there,” says Yao Liu ’04, a chemistry concentrator who is the current president of WISHR. “That sort of discouraged me from going.” Liu is certainly conscious of the gender imbalance in the sciences, but she says the skewed demographics have not negatively impacted her experience...
...City.” As an economics major (translation: concentrator) currently entertaining notions of one day working the I-bank circuit in New York, Krinsky realizes that her ability to discuss sex in print can only hurt her chances of advancing in the reserved and image-conscious world of high finance...