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Outside HAA, A New Network Thrives

One focus will be increasing social and networking ties to undergraduates. In the past, AAAHA has given scholarship money, a program organizers hope to resuscitate in the future.

Black Students Association Treasurer Aaron C. Montgomery '00 says black undergraduates are itching to make these connections with recent graduates. In fact, Montgomery is hoping to increase the number of alumni included in the informal network.

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He helps organizes a career fair each November that brings together job hunters with minority employees of consulting firms and investment banks like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley.

This year, Montgomery wants to bring more black-owned start-ups to campus.

"If you want to get the straight dope on what a company is like for minorities, you're not going to get it from recruiters," he says. "It's not necessarily because they sugarcoat it, but because they just don't know."

Montgomery says that divisive topics like affirmative action can create hostile workplaces for minority workers, and white recruiters might not even recognize the problem.

"You want to know what it's like to be a black person at a company every day, not what the company is doing to help black people," he says.

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