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...Crimson's coverage of minority events, the paper has been very good to the South Asian Association. I would be remiss, however, if I accepted the SAA's good fortune and did not acknowledge the problems other groups have faced concerning Crimson reporting. A specific example is the East Coast Asian Students Union. After all of the time and effort the ECASU Conference Committee put into making this Conference one of the biggest in the nation, their own school newspaper did not grant it coverage. They were told that their conference "was not news...
...criticisms of the April 27th staff editorial. Your ill-drawn conclusions and insinuations beg a response. By not even asking us why the SAA did not sign the letter and implying that we oppose Counter, The Crimson has disserviced its readers and insulted the SAA...
First, let me start by saying that in my past three years at Harvard the South Asian Association has never taken a stance in campus politics. Then, earlier this year the SAA took its first political stance by adding our name to the coalition condemning Leonard Jeffries' racist attitudes. As this was a big transformation for the Association, we underwent an intricate process before actually joining the protest. We invited representatives from both BSA and Hillel to speak at our weekly meeting, followed by a question and answer period, and finally followed by a closed and lengthy discussion. We concluded...
This is not to say that we as an Association would have endorsed or condemned such a letter but that even the consideration here was not possible. Perhaps the voice of SAA should have been more clearly articulated. When asked by the Crimson reporter two weeks ago, I shared my view that "I, as President of SAA, did not see any benefit in having organizations line up and take sides. Race relations problems are not solved through a volleying of accusations via letters, but through constructive discourse...
Furthermore, if we did choose to not sign the letters in question, it could have been, and indeed would have been, for a different reason than was blatantly insinuated in The Crimson editorial. The Crimson is wrong in the conclusions they imply about why the voice of SAA is missing in a unified support for Counter and have no basis to draw their conclusions. We simply did not have the time to enact our organization's mechanisms to make such a decision...