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While the Nunn plan aims to promote civic-mindedness among all men and women, more affluent students will not be affected as financial aid is less of a concern. In a sense, as a result of class backround, one group can buy out of this community work requirement. This is a chilling reminder of draft practices in the 1960s and '70s, when most of those who actually served in Vietnam came from lower-income families...
...describing the backround for the event, the staff only partially heeds its own calls for fairness. The staff describes the 1980 s as a decade of "insensitivity and hostility to minority concerns" and condemns the Reagan Justice Department for seeking to roll back affirmative action. We agree with this assessment and remain critical of the Justice Department's failure to continue actively prosecuting civil rights cases...
...Diversity is the key to a successful program...The major emphasis is on broadening executives who, for the most part, come from a relatively narrow backround," said Robert R. Glauber, director of the AMP and professor of business administration...
...South African parliament currently consists of three houses, one each for the whites, the coloreds--people of mixed Black and white backround--and the Indian population...
Social clubs like the final clubs and now the Pudding, however, choose members based in a large part on family name, wealth and "who you know"--which, again, is integrally related to school and family backround. Unfortunately, the organizations that are the most unfair in their selection are the ones which offer their members the most in post-college connections and benefits. The former members of these clubs are usually wealthy, white, male corporate and political success stories. They can offer the best in high-paying jobs to seniors hunting for post-Harvard occupations...