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Yale coach Tony Johnson has lost several of his biggest burners, some to graduation and others to the Canadian Olympic team, but he retains a proven group of very large racers...
Based on evidence drawn primarily from a series of open meetings and a survey of one-quarter of the undergraduates, the report concludes that race problems at Harvard "are not caused by a single, deviant group of racist students," but by distorted perceptions on the part of many undergraduates...
Many committee members said this week they think the report's most disturbing conclusions concern admissions policies and the resulting group of minority students that attends Harvard. The survey indicates that while white students support "compensatory action" to attract a racially diverse student body, Blacks want programs that admit minority students in a number in proportion to their representation in the general population. Hispanics, Native Americans and Asian Americans fall somewhere in between...
...attitudes about whites negatively. Many minority students reported that contacts with white students carry social costs. About 50 per cent of Black students and 35 per cent of Hispanics and Native Americans reported that social affiliations with non-minorities reduce their acceptance among members of their racial or ethnic group...
Florence Houn '80, former president of the Asian American Association, supported Matthew's views. A member of a group advocating the establishment of a campus Third World Center, Houn said white students might perceive the center as threatening. But the real problem is ignorance, she added. "People don't understand Third World people, culture and heritage so they're afraid of Third World people getting together," Houn said...