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Paul H. Wood, a spokesperson for the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights, said yesterday evening that the government was in the process of sending Harvard the results of a two-year probe into alleged discrimination against Asian-American applicants to Harvard College. He would not comment on the findings, but said there would be a public announcement this morning...
According to the statement, approved by Harvard Asian-American, Black, Native American, Puerto Rican and Chicano student groups, "Harvard University invests approximately $170 million in companies that do business in South Africa. Meanwhile the South African government continues to discriminate solely on the basis of race...
After more than four years of investigation, the U.S. Department of Education announced yesterday that one graduate program in the University of California at Los Angeles is guilty of discriminating against Asian-American applicants...
Young countered the investigation's findings, saying in a statement that the proportion of Asian Americans at UCLA has increased from 8.4 percent in 1979 to15 percent in 1989. He added that the proportionof Asian and Asian-American students is 22.3percent...
...more equal than others. Nor even that they were threatening to deprive thousands of playgoers of a drama that promised to shed some light on precisely such cross-cultural nuances; nor even that they were more or less ensuring -- if the principle were to be applied fairly -- that most Asian-American actors would have to sit around in limbo and wait for the next production of The Mikado. They were also raising some highly intriguing questions. How can John Gielgud play Prospero when Doug Henning is at hand? Should future Shakespeares -- even future August Wilsons -- stock their plays with middle...