From linhan at MIT.EDU Thu Apr 27 18:02:22 2006 From: linhan at MIT.EDU (Lin Han) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:02:22 -0400 Subject: [MIT CSSA Outreach] Official statement from MIT CSSA regarding the "Visualizing Culture" issue Message-ID: <20060427180222.g2e5j8kkce0gsc8g@webmail.mit.edu> Dear CSSA Members and Other Members of the Chinese Community Worldwide, Earlier this morning, the MIT Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) had an in-depth discussion with the MIT administration on the issue of the Visualizing Cultures website, specifically the "Throwing Off Asia" unit. This is a scholarly research project, and there is no art exhibition associated with it. Representatives from the President's Office, the MIT News Office, and the research group behind the website were all present. The meeting has resulted in a constructive agreement. The research group recognized the need to contextualize these sensitive materials and pledged to continue a dialogue with CSSA and other groups to address this issue. Professors Dower and Miyagawa have expressed deep regret over the emotional distress caused by some of the imagery and are genuinely sorry that the website has caused pain within the Chinese community. The agreed resolution is as follows: 1. Official statements from both MIT and Professors Dower and Miyagawa, which will be posted as a link off the MIT home page shortly and permanently reside on the MIT News Office website, and distributed to the Chinese community worldwide. 2. Organize a public forum to facilitate a discussion on the use of sensitive imagery. The Committee on Campus Race Relations (CCRR) is currently organizing a panel discussion on visual imagery that is scheduled to take place in early May (date and location to be determined). 3. The Visualizing Cultures research team will address how it contextualizes sensitive content by providing appropriate language to prepare users for the graphic material depicted. The research team is looking to CSSA for feedback and future dialogue. As stated previously, CSSA is strongly opposed to any irrational behavior. Any feedback from individuals on this issue is welcome. Best regards, MIT Chinese Student and Scholar Association Huan Zhang, President Lin Han, Vice President Chinese Version: ?MIT??????????????? ??????????????????????????????MIT??????????(CSSA)?MIT??????????????????.?????????????????????????????????????MIT?????MIT???????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Dower???Miyagawa????????????????????????????????? ??????????????? 1) Dower???Miyagawa?????MIT???????MIT????????????????MIT??????????????????????????? 2) ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 3) ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???MIT????????????????????????????????????? MIT?????????? ????? ?????? From linhan at MIT.EDU Thu Apr 27 18:25:44 2006 From: linhan at MIT.EDU (Lin Han) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:25:44 -0400 Subject: [MIT CSSA Outreach] Official statement from MIT CSSA regarding the"Visualizing Culture" issue - Attaching Chinese Version Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060427182324.036ad0b0@po10.mit.edu> Dear CSSA Members and Other Members of the Chinese Community Worldwide, Earlier this morning, the MIT Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) had an in-depth discussion with the MIT administration on the issue of the Visualizing Cultures website, specifically the "Throwing Off Asia" unit. This is a scholarly research project, and there is no art exhibition associated with it. Representatives from the President's Office, the MIT News Office, and the research group behind the website were all present. The meeting has resulted in a constructive agreement. The research group recognized the need to contextualize these sensitive materials and pledged to continue a dialogue with CSSA and other groups to address this issue. Professors Dower and Miyagawa have expressed deep regret over the emotional distress caused by some of the imagery and are genuinely sorry that the website has caused pain within the Chinese community. The agreed resolution is as follows: 1. Official statements from both MIT and Professors Dower and Miyagawa, which will be posted as a link off the MIT home page shortly and permanently reside on the MIT News Office website, and distributed to the Chinese community worldwide. 2. Organize a public forum to facilitate a discussion on the use of sensitive imagery. The Committee on Campus Race Relations (CCRR) is currently organizing a panel discussion on visual imagery that is scheduled to take place in early May (date and location to be determined). 3. The Visualizing Cultures research team will address how it contextualizes sensitive content by providing appropriate language to prepare users for the graphic material depicted. The research team is looking to CSSA for feedback and future dialogue. As stated previously, CSSA is strongly opposed to any irrational behavior. Any feedback from individuals on this issue is welcome. Best regards, MIT Chinese Student and Scholar Association Huan Zhang, President Lin Han, Vice President The Chinese version is attached in the pdf file. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Official Letter from MIT CSSA - Chinese.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 58001 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/cssa-outreach/attachments/20060427/2ba57f8b/attachment.obj From yonghsi at yahoo.com Sat Apr 29 13:00:59 2006 From: yonghsi at yahoo.com (pw) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [MIT CSSA Outreach] [MIT ROCSA] FW: Professor Purdue's Open Letter to Chinese Students In-Reply-To: <200604291537.k3TFb7vq016441@outgoing.mit.edu> Message-ID: <20060429170059.42208.qmail@web52603.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Lin Han, Ed Chin Wang Lee, and Huan Zhang, Thanks for your enthusiam and effort.I believe now that Prof. Purdue's letter is made public, there is a need to make open again the MIT URL of ??Visualizing Cultures??conducted by Professors John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa. So that we all concerned people can take a look at it, and have a more clear idea what's exactly going on? Thank you very much, with best regards, Patrick Wang, patang at mit.edu *************************************************************************** To "Nancy F. Chen" : Nancy, Thank you very much for the info. Two things: (1) the URL in your email should be ended with and include T.pdf,else it's unopenable, (2) would you mind please make available to us the web link of MIT's ??Visualizing Cultures??conducted by Professors John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa. So that we all concerned people can take a look at it, and have a more clear idea what's exactly going on? Just like "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."--The Friends of Voltaire, Beatrice Hall, 1906, as well as Prof Purdue said, this is really the basic spirit of academic freedom and integrity to know the fact and truth. Thank you very much, with best wishes, Patrick Wang, patwang at mit.edu "Nancy F. Chen" wrote: -----Original Message----- From: chiaolun at gmail.com [mailto:chiaolun at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chiao-Lun Cheng Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:52 AM To: Nancy F. Chen Subject: Professor Purdue's Open Letter to Chinese Students Hi Nancy, I do believe this should be sent to the people you forwarded the previous emails to. http://web.mit.edu/history/Open%20Letter%20to%20Chinese%20Students%20at%20MI T.pdf Chiao -- ******************************************* Chiao-Lun Cheng Van Voorhis Group Department of Chemistry, Room 6-234 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Email : chiao at mit.edu Tel : +1 (617) 253-1539 Website : http://zeno.unixboxen.net ******************************************* "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- The Friends of Voltaire, Beatrice Hall, 1906 _______________________________________________ tgsa-members mailing list tgsa-members at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tgsa-members --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. 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