In a tense meeting last night, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) debated the group's official position on some of its members' discrimination charges against the staff of Temple Bar.

The meeting and the accusations were sparked by an incident last Tuesday night when 15 members of the group were forced to wait 25 minutes to get a table at the partially-filled bar.

The day after the incident, former APALSA co-chair Susan Perng wrote an e-mail message--but it was sent out under the auspices of APALSA with current co-chair Shan M. Chang's "signature."

Because the message was signed by Chang instead of its author and distributed through the APALSA list, many members took it as an official group communiqu.

The letter's tone and its publication still did not sit well with some members.

"It is shocking that this drastic move...was done with zero input from the general membership," said member Roger Severino '99 in an e-mail message.

Chang acknowledged the potential confusion of the message's authorship.

"I wasn't clear that it was an individual, not an official message," she said.