Word: action
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Clearly the comment refers to actions of "policy" taken by the government: the quotas required by affirmative action. But its phrasing also casts the problems facing minorities in a narrow, even paternalistic manner. It says that U.S. society will acknowledge a minority's problems only if they require policy amounting to obvious "special treatment." Just who delivers the treatment remains tantalizingly vague...
Asian-Americans should not be classed with other minority groups in affirmative action programs because of the relatively high degree of success they have already achieved in the professional world, a Harvard professor told an audience of about 200 people in Emerson Hall yesterday...
Saying he thought it a mistake to list minority groups qualifying for affirmative action at all, Glazer added, "It was certainly a mistake to extend these programs beyond Blacks...
...other action for the men, junior captain John Mees took first in the 500-meter, posting a time of 64.95. Senior Chris Woodward placed second in the 1000-meter with a 2:28.17 mark. Both times for Mees and Woodward qualify them for the IC4A...
...women's action, Harvard swept Boston College in the 1500-meter as freshman Rachel Lewis (4:44.88), senior captain Beth Pfefferle (4:49.94) and senior. Tina Lount (4:51.25) finished...