Word: california
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...boycott did not originate as a protest against working conditions, as the staff editorial indicates. In fact, the boycott began in 1984 as a complaint against California's governor at the time. The following year, the boycott campaign expanded to focus on the elimination of pesticides. Working conditions have always been a concern of the UFW, but they were not the original reason for the boycott. Additionally, Stanford University does not currently endorse the grape boycott, as the Crimson staff indicated...
...accepting the UFW's statements about working conditions, the Crimson staff exposes its lack of knowledge about present-day conditions on California farms. True, when the UFW began its campaign for better working conditions in the 1960s, working conditions on many farms were poor. Today, however, farms are held to strict regulations when it comes to field sanitation, health insurance, drinking water and pesticide use. Growers who apply pesticides to their crops (and nearly all do) must file pesticide application records with local authorities, and must keep workers out of those fields for a specified number of days after application...
...Barry Munitz, the commission's vice chair and chancellor of California State University, added that convincing Congress of financial aid's effectiveness as a solution to the rising cost of higher education is "an up-hill battle...
...contends, would have been admitted under the standards applied to minority applicants. Conservative strategists have come to view the federal courts as their best ally in the battle against affirmative action. Proposals to roll back racial preferences have gone nowhere in Congress. Affirmative-action foes won big in California last year with Proposition 209, but that victory has turned out to be difficult to repeat in other states. The federal judiciary, however, is proving far more receptive. Two years ago, the Supreme Court showed a distinct willingness to strike down minority-business set-aside programs. And in Hopwood v. Texas...
...these days it's facing more than just an identity crisis. Rarely have those who revile the exam--including many of the 1 million students who take it each year--had so much to celebrate: because of new state prohibitions against affirmative action, public universities in California and Texas are struggling to find ways to remain racially diverse. One solution: scrap SATs, since minorities score worse, on average, than whites. The University of California is considering a proposal by its Latino Eligibility Task Force to eliminate SATs from admissions decisions in order to boost Latino enrollment. Public universities in Texas...