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Furthermore, the blue-collar WASP half of my ancestry has suffered more from circumstances beyond its control than my white-collar Asian half ever did. My father's father teaches law at a Philippine university, employs two maids and paid for undergraduate and professional degrees for all of his eight children. My mother's father worked in a factory, and his children didn't go to college. I grew up in a middle-class suburb because of my father's education, not because of the color of my mother's skin...
When more than half the city's 32 local boards balked at introducing first- graders to the notion of same-sex couples, chancellor Joseph Fernandez agreed that they could hold off until the fifth or sixth grade. But the board of District 24, in the largely blue-collar borough of Queens, refused that offer. Board president Mary Cummins labeled portions of the guide "dangerously misleading homosexual/lesbian propaganda." Even after Fernandez softened the guidelines concerning homosexuality, District 24 board members refused to meet with him. Last week the exasperated chancellor suspended them. In their place he appointed trustees who will...
...admissions office's main concern, he says,is to make sure that students from allbackgrounds, including blue-collar, recentimmigrants, and smaller Asian-American subgroupsget to Harvard...
...into an agreement with the other Ivies to keep it that way. Throwing our hat into the bidding war for minority students would not only break that agreement but would create some ethically questionable inequities in Harvard's admissions and financial aid process. What would Harvard say to a blue-collar white kid from Kentucky who received a regular aid package after it awarded a huge race-based deal to a Black kid from Exeter...
...escapist drivel, meanwhile, is going after a younger crowd. TV's hottest new genre is the twentysomething ensemble show. Melrose Place (a spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210), The Heights (about a group of blue-collar New Jersey youths trying to launch a rock band) and 2000 Malibu Road, a soap opera set in a California beach house, all drew strong ratings this summer. Coming this fall are NBC's The Round Table (young professionals in Washington), Fox's Class of '96 (students at a small Northeastern college) and a slew of youth- oriented sitcoms...