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...Hoop Dreams" is a tragedy of bad advice. Bad advice begins with bad fathers, or more aptly, absent fathers. Both Arthur Age and William Gates, the two young players whose high school careers this film traces, grow up in single-parent homes. This fact becomes central to the narrative of their lives as time and time again they are manipulated by would-be fathers--be they coaches, recruiters, or corporations...
...Absent widespread student support, the proposals for ethnic studies will likely make little progress. Nor should they, without acknowledging and addressing the concerns of many who are wary of the proposal...
...move was backed by 35 council members, but also drew 26 opponents. Twenty-two members were absent...
...average I.Q. of a white is higher than the average I.Q. of a Black, then we ought not expect there to be, absent discrimination, a proportional representation of whites and Blacks at each level of society. Therefore, a disproportionate number of whites in the academic profession does not necessarily mean, as our legal system presently claims, that there is anti-Black discrimination in the university...
...also says the bylaw on absences isn't always applicable. He cites the case of one council member, who was absent from meetings after her father died...