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Gladiola Campos, an effervescent sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, found herself outside a Los Angeles hotel the other day handing leaflets to a busload of Japanese tourists. "Konnichi-wa," she greeted each one with a little bow. "Good day." The flyers urged the visitors to boycott the New Otani Hotel, which has been fighting a three-year union-organizing effort by its mostly Latino employees. And to reinforce the message, as soon as the tour bus closed its door, Campos and four other college students hopped inside a van and tailed it along the freeway...
...Jarosek, 71, belongs to the third generation of a Czech-American family to farm in the Taylor area, near Austin. In February he sold some of his small herd of cattle, which consisted of "45 mamas," as he puts it, for 65 [cents] a pound. A few weeks ago, he sold more for 29 [cents] a pound and then another few for 20'. He has 20 "mama cows" and little money left to buy feed. "This may be my last year," he says...
...slammed into the gravel 30 yds. away, bounced across the lake and tore up some trees. Drenched and pelted by golf ball-size hailstones, I ran for my truck. By the time I reached it, there was only a gentle drizzle falling, and the birds were singing. DENNIS MCCOWN Austin, Texas...
...BEEN ALMOST 47 YEARS SINCE a black man named Heman Sweatt and his lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, brought a case before the Supreme Court that forcibly integrated the University of Texas. So it was oddly appropriate last week that the University of Texas at Austin was once again the defendant in a sweeping, precedent-setting court ruling on the subject of race. This time, though, the university was chastised for promoting racial diversity, not racial exclusion...
...circuit court ruled on the 1992 case of Hopwood v. State of Texas, in which Cheryl Hopwood and three other students disputed their rejection by the law school. One of the strengths of the case, says Terral Smith, the Austin lawyer who filed it, is that Hopwood is "a real victim, the sort of person affirmative action should help." According to Smith, Hopwood, who comes from a blue-collar family, was offered a couple of partial scholarships--including one to Princeton--but still could not afford to go. Instead she attended California State University, married a serviceman, worked...