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PERSONNEL. The boat people will probably be interviewed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, already burdened with a backlog of 400,000 refugee applications. Immigration officials in Haiti came under fire last August when one of the INS's own internal monitors publicized the ineptitude and anti- asylum bias he observed in Port-au-Prince. He was sacked but later reinstated...
This editorial attempts to make a case for two ideas that challenge academic institutions in this country to acknowledge a history of racial bias, that such bias persists (albeit in less direct ways) and the impact of this bias on current scholarship. The first idea is ethnic studies, the second minority faculty hiring, both controversial because of the emphasis they place on race and ethnicity...
...apologizing for its short-comings, cites the low pool figures for people of color in the same breath with its concerns regarding lowered standards. But to imply that looking to hire minority faculty automatically risks lowering standards, as this dangerous bipartite excuse does, can only lead to undue bias against all candidates of color, qualifications notwithstanding. In addition, with such a pronounced lack of support for ethnic studies by the relevant departments, excellent minority professors in this field face the double Harvard whammy of being a person of color as well as specializing in a field that is assumed...
...have our biases. But part of the liberal bias is to listen to all sides and consider all the possiblities. It is conservatives who will only allow their "thinking" to take them...
...Court voted 8 to 1 Tuesday against applying the Civil Rights Act of 1991 retroactively to cases , that were pending when the law was enacted. The court ruled that the law, passed by Congress to restore rights narrowed by previous Supreme Court rulings and to allow victims of employment bias to collect compensatory and punitive damages, was not intended to apply to cases already in the legal pipeline at the time of Congress's vote...