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This incident demonstrates that college campuses, as microcosms of society, are by no means immune to ethnically motivated bias incidents. This was never more evident than after Sept. 11, when students of Arab American and South Asian American descent all across the country became targets of a violent backlash in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks...
Campus hate crimes remain a “hidden problem” largely because incidents are underreported by students and their universities. Students do not report ethnically motivated bias incidents for various reasons, such as fear of retaliation, discouragement or lack of knowledge regarding the reporting process itself and the belief that nothing will be done even if they do report an incident. Universities are hesitant to categorize incidents as motivated by ethnic bias...
...campus are a serious problem that must be addressed. U.S. Department of Education (DOE) statistics indicate that on-campus hate crimes are a growing problem in the nation as a whole, and various survey data show that in particular a significant number of Asian Pacific Americans experience ethnically motivated bias incidents on their campuses. Such incidents are explored in the 2000 audit of violence against Asian Pacific Americans called “Responding to Hate Crimes: A Special Focus on College Campuses,” produced by the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and its affiliates, the Asian American...
Students, parents, professors, alumni, and administrators can all work together to ensure that schools comply with federal hate crime reporting requirements. Together, they can develop anti-bias and other programs to address the problem. Schools can also develop working partnerships with law enforcement agnecies to prevent and respond to hate crimes on campus...
...meantime, the interest-rate cycle has turned. Last week the Fed declared itself officially out of the stimulus game, returning its interest-rate bias to neutral after 11 straight cuts and readying the markets for a return to - gasp - inflation watch. Greenspan won't be intervening in this economy again until it's time to slow it down, and the bond markets aren't waiting, pushing up market interest rates on those very fears. The window of opportunity that gave consumers most of their extra 2001 spending power - great mortgage-refinancing deals and low-interest rate loans - is closing fast...