Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quakers present a tough challenge, bringing a 3-0 record into tomorrow's race. Penn swiped the San Diego Crew Classic three weeks ago--outlasting Washington, Navy, Yale, Princeton and Wisconsin--and has since topped Princeton and Columbia in the Childs Cup and beat Yale and Columbia in the Black-well...
Another reason South Africa has not been covered heavily in the last few years may be a scarcity of Black reporters and correspondents, said Danny Schechter, the producer of the PBS weekly show South Africa...
...when the number of applicants overall declined 11 percent, the proportion of minorites admitted jumped slightly (about 1.5 percent) to 32.3 percent. Meanwhile, two groups--Hispanics and Asian-Americans--reached all-time high representation within the admitted Class of 1993 at 6.9 and 15.3 percent respectively, although levels for Black and Native American students remained virtually unchanged at 9.6 and .5 percent each...
Other figures, if not cause for satisfaction, at least recognize outrageous problems from past years. While women outnumbered men by 135 to 77 in last year's admitted class of Black students, this year's gender representation at least approached reasonable levels with 108 women and 100 men admitted...
...Black representation at Harvard, for example, has yet to surpass significantly a level reached 20 years ago--the first year Harvard began recruiting efforts. Yet the representation of Black students here still falls below the 12.4 percent representation in the population at large. Hispanic students too come to Harvard in fewer numbers than their 7.5 percent nationwide representation...