Although weekend organizers promptly responded by inviting an Asian student to speak at the diversity discussion, members of AAA were angered that such a substantial population at Harvard could be inadvertently omitted.

1994: Another Rally

Heightening the emphasis on the need for more minority professors and ethnic studies classes, about 45 students rallied for administrative action in two separate weekend protests.

"One, two, three, four, minority faculty, we want more!," student protesters chanted outside the Science Center.

Similar to the previous year, protestors chanted, waved signs, passed out flyers and circulated a petition in and outside of the building.

Following the Friday protest, Jennifer Ching '96, then co-president of AAA, told about 450 parents and students seated for a government lecture that the administration had not acted on student concerns about the number of minority profesors.

Unlike the previous year's protest, which was precipitated by the omission of Asian-American students from the panels on College life, participants decided not to criticize the parents' weekend program.

1995: Is Ethnic Studies a Viable Academic Discipline?

A year later, about 40 students once again took to the front of the Science Center to call for Harvard to parallel schools like Columbia, Stanford and Brown in their recognition of the importance of ethnic studies.

Earlier in the year, Knowles had revamped the ad-hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies and convened a subcommittee of the Educational Policy Committee to draft a report on the state of ethnic studies at Harvard.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, however, rejected the subcommittee's recommendations and refused to promote the subcommittee to the status of standing committee.

Protesters called for courses in Asian-American, Latino-American and Native American studies similar to those already offered in the Afro-American Studies Department.

Today

Currently, students interested in studying ethnic studies at Harvard may consult a 50-page brochure available from the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education.

Of the 90 courses listed in the brochure "Ethnic Studies at Harvard," critics charge that only 25 meet the standards established by Harvard students and programs at other colleges throughout the country.