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Recently, an organization for part-Asian students called HAPA (Half Asian Person's Association) was formed, providing a welcoming group where biracial students can discuss the unique issues they face. HAPA existed in the early '90s, but disintegrated after the founders graduated. Apparently, the administration felt no pressing need to keep the organization up and running. But thanks to Rebecca Weisinger '02, HAPA is once again a forum for biracial and multiracial students...
...peek to one side and catch a pair of two-ton white rhinos who seem to have sleepy-mean eyes to butt the tram (hatari!). And don't miss the gawky East African crowned cranes off to the right. The driver turns on a radio, a sweet Swahili tune (Hapa Dunianai by the Voices of Celebration) wafts through the air, and the cranes turn into an impromptu chorus line, stepping gracefully to the music...
Last night's meeting was sponsored by the Asian American Association and co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural Race Relations, the Undergraduate Council, the Japan Society, HAPA and La Raza...
Just when I thought that Harvard students had come up with all the possible unique names, categories and even sub-categories for cultural clubs, yet another combo emerges. This week's entry is the Half Asian Persons Association (HAPA). This association, formed by Christine Muraski Millett, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, hopes to congregate students of this particular biraciality to promote discussion of multicultural issues. Although a unique attempt at social awareness, HAPA's existence reinforces the ugly truth that Harvard students need to categorize and label just about everything...
...specific cultural clubs which already exist. Further-more, the mere presence of these clubs often pressures students to choose a label. And so to maintain their biraciality, students prefer not to become at all involved with these clubs. Feeling left out, students take measures like forming clubs similar to HAPA. Why do students feel that forming a club is the only method by which they can achieve a sense of identity? The existence of these clubs promotes the notion that to be grouped with people of your own ethnicity grants an individual identity. This idea is absolutely ridiculous...