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...also decrease jingoistic sentiments by making people realize that all immigrants can become meaningfully integrated in the American society. As we wait for more details, we hope that pertinent legislation will continue to be passed. Specifically, we hope to see the Dream Act passed soon. The Dream Act would allow the children of illegal immigrants to take advantage of federal funds to pursue higher education—an obvious step in the right direction for the integration of illegal immigrants into American society. Finally, while the focus of this legislation deals primarily with low-wage immigrants, we should seize upon...
...students gathered to hear Glenda R. Carpio—an associate professor of African and African-American Studies—and Jigna Desai—a visiting associate professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department—praise a newly-proposed ethnic studies program, which they said would allow students to discuss questions of racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which are very powerful media,” she said over a table of desserts from Finale?...
What do you think of the laws under consideration in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, among other states, to allow guns on campus...
Moreover, if al-Maliki's government asks U.S. forces to stay in significant numbers in Mosul, any negotiated extension of the U.S. presence risks stoking political attacks from the Prime Minister's Shi'ite rivals. Any move by al-Maliki to allow U.S. forces to keep up major operations in Mosul may weaken his standing in parliamentary elections, which are expected to happen in December or January of next year...
...latest lightning rod for anti-Chinese sentiment is Hanoi's plan to allow subsidiaries of the Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) to mine bauxite ore in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Bauxite is a key ingredient in aluminum, which China needs to fuel its construction industry. Vietnam has an estimated eight billion tons of high-quality bauxite, the third-largest reserves in the world. The environmental cost of extracting the mineral, however, can be high. Strip mining is efficient, but scars the land and bauxite processing releases a toxic red sludge that can seep into water supplies if not adequately contained...