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...absolutely unconscionable that not one Hispanic, African-American or Asian is a parent of mine. In fact, not just one, but both of my parents are white and Jewish. Thank goodness I'm at least treated to some gender diversity--even parity. Ah, how my mother must have struggled to reach these heights...
...gender parity is definitely not enough. How can my two white parents. treat my siblings and me to a full experience of growing up? I and my siblings never had a parent of color as a role model...
...truly, we in no way disrupted the weekend's events, taking care to keep our audible protest limited to the area outside the Science Center to peacefully hand out leaflets, request signatures and hold up signs. We took the additional step of asking permission from Director of the Parents' Association Ellen Towne and Dean of Students Archie Epps. Even Parents Weekend co-coordinator Richard Gardner '95 could not deny the effectiveness of our precautions, stating (as quoted in another article of the same Crimson issue), "While I would prefer that the protest wouldn't have happened, things did turn...
...educative goal was also part of the reason why we chose Junior Parents Weekend as a forum for our grievances, the choice reflecting our hope that by alerting the parents to the facts of our situation, we might enlist their influential support. Parent Donna C. Albert put it well, stating, "I thinking they [protesting students] realize that change comes through parents." Ismuk Choi, another parent, told The Crimson that the protests has inspired his plans to write a letter to President Rudenstine "supporting ethnic studies and a more diversified faculty...
...ironic that the very day after The Crimson printed Evan Cucci's piece, "Forsenic Etiquette," on the futility of personal insult in the course of a debate, David Lat has the audacity to write "Rebels Without a Cause," at best a "critique" of the protests that occurred during Junior Parent's Weekend...