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...response to allegations of sexual violence by athletes at one of the nation's premier universities, Duke students posted flyers with photos of most of the lacrosse players imploring them to PLEASE COME FORWARD. But what really happened during the early-morning hours of March 14? An African-American student from nearby North Carolina Central University claimed that three men, believed to be Duke lacrosse-team players, choked and sodomized her in the bathroom of an off-campus house during a raucous team party at which she was hired to strip. She also said some men yelled slurs...
...It’s my goal to make the Asian man sexy again,” he jokes.Data on interracial marriage suggests that few Korean-American men cross ethnic lines—at least at the altar.While 24.3 percent of Korean-American women have white husbands, just 3.9 percent of Korean-American men have white wives, according to Le of UMass-Amherst. Fewer than 0.1 percent have African-American wives, according to Le.Just as media portrayals in the U.S. may distort Asian-American masculinity, images of African-Americans abroad may make it less socially acceptable for Asian Americans to date...
Minority enrollment was miniscule in these years—with schools such as the largely Jewish Brandeis University in nearby Waltham and predominantly African-American Howard University in Washington, D.C. catering to students outside the standard Harvard demographic of those years...
...Adams Scholarship Provides free tuition for four years at a Massachusetts public college for eligible students. The study’s author, Pennsylvania State University education professor Donald E. Heller, found that 25 percent of white students qualified for the scholarship in 2005, compared with only 8 percent of African-American students and 8 percent of Hispanics. Additionally, only 10 percent of students on the National School Lunch program—who have family incomes of less than $35,000—were eligible for the scholarship, as opposed to 26 percent of higher-income students. Heller said that...
...similar reactions. Many Harvard students seem to have preconceived notions about the army; they do not expect to see Harvard women in uniform. “You don’t fit the stereotype of white male,” says Jessica D. Williams ’08, an African-American who has been in Army ROTC since her freshman fall. These women deal every day with the complexities of their decision. Classmates don’t understand why they joined a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” institution...