Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arnold Brown '89 is arrested for allegedly kicking a man with his foot after being hit by his car. Brown, who is Black, charges racial harassment and says officers preferentially interviewed white witnesses and made racist remarks during his arrest...
...over 17.4 percent of the class, a record by 3 percent over previous levels. Minority student representation reaches 32 percent, also a record, about a point and a half above earlier levels. Hispanic students also were admitted at record highs, and reached about 6 percent of the class. Black student representation, however, remains set at about 8 percent...
...year's crises also centered on the failure of tolerance, on the community's inability to live together peacably. Outrage flared in March when Cambridge police pulled two Black students off a University shuttle bus, searched them and left them on the curb without explanation. Police said they mistook the pair for a white suspect in a nearby convenience store robbery and defended the officers' behavior as "proper and professional...
Student demonstrations made clear to the faculty and administration student concerns about the dearth of women and minority professors at the school. There are currently four Black and six women professors tenured and two junior professors who are minorities...
...This proposal is racist," said Robert L. Wilkins, president of the Black Law Students' Association. "The assumption it asked people to make runs counter to the idea of fighting discrimination. This whole thing became very insulting because conservative students were trying to equate their experience as an 'ideological minority' with that of Black, female or gay students...