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There is, in addition, growing evidence that the level of labor market discrimination faced by African-Americans rose during the 1980s. Contrary to much popular perception, the Reagan-Bush years of assault on affirmative action and other aspects of civil rights enforcement were also an era when young college-educated blacks lost ground relative to whites. This is true both for earnings and for prospects of employment. Yet this was a time of narrowing black-white gaps in skill and achievement. I am persuaded by political economist Martin Carnoy's claim in his important book Faded Dreams, that Reagan-Bush...
...rape is like a little murder, killing off the person who was there before with persistent emotional trauma, grief and hopelessness, as well with a loss of self-respect, hope and pride. It's hard to find focused campus efforts or even discussions whose aim is to eliminate sexual assault. Perhaps too many people still trivialize acquaintance rape as differing from "real" rape. In fact, it is when the victim knows the rapist, as is reportedly the case 78 percent of the time, that there is a greater sense of confusion, self-blame, betrayal and loss of trust...
...bring this notion a little closer to home. One of the most influential and rigorous studies of sexual assault on college campuses was conducted in the mid-80s by Dr. Mary Koss, then a professor at Kent State. Koss found that one in 12 college men admitted to behaviors that fit the legal definition of rape. Applying the results of that study to Harvard, we can expect that just about all of us know someone affected by rape. The problem is that we rarely know we know...
...these attitudes hovering about us--perhaps we even recognize them in ourselves--it would behoove us to be vigilant in our opposition to them. At the very least, the campus environment would benefit from the recognition that such mentalities can be conductive and sheltering to those who commit sexual assault. And recognition is one of the easiest changes we can make...
...pandemic of 1918 remains a mystery. It began with a relatively mild initial assault on March 4, when the first reported case occurred at Camp Funston, Kans. Within four months, the virus had traversed the globe. The flu sickened millions but killed relatively few, and in the tumult of World War I, the first wave seemed pretty mundane...