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Students To Print Yearbook Addition

Fourteen minority groups will be featured in free supplement

A yearbook official said the yearbook has agreed to permanently increase by 16 pages the organizations section of next year’s book.

Additional increases will be determined on a year-to-year basis “if there is special demand for increased size,” the official said.

“I am confident that this will allow all groups wishing to appear in the yearbook to do so,” Moore said.

The three also discussed possible ways in which the yearbook can make their solicitation and selection of student groups more effective.

Because many of the student groups did not receive e-mail notifications about applying to be included in the yearbook, Toungara suggested the senior list be e-mailed with yearbook details.

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But the yearbook official said they prefer not to overload students’ inboxes. Instead, she said, they plan to use other advertising techniques.

“We will continue to e-mail groups individually,” she said. “But we also will use other avenues of communication, such as table tents, possibly an ad in The Crimson and an informational flier that we can put in the pre-registration packet that goes to every student organization in the fall.”

Pinto said she believes the controversy should be a catalyst for student action.

“This really shows that the student body needs to show more interest in what groups are included in the yearbook so that we can get a better product,” Pinto said.

The groups that will be featured in the supplement are: the Harvard African Students Association, the Association of Black Harvard Women, the Black Students Association, the Black Men’s Forum, the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers, the Caribbean Club and Caribbean Club Dance Troupe, Expressions Dance Company, Fuerza Latina, Haitian Alliance, the Kuumba Singers, Latinas Unidas, RAZA, the South Asian Association and the Harvard-Radcliffe Women’s Leadership Project.

—Staff writer Katherine M. Dimengo can be reached at dimengo@fas.harvard.edu.

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