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Racially, 59.7 percent identified themselves as white or Caucasian, 19.8 percent Asian-American, 11.3 percent African-American or black, 3.2 Mexican American or Chicano, 1.1 percent Puerto Rican, 4.5 percent other Latino or Hispanic and 0.4 percent Native American...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poll Attempts an Unbiased Methodology | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...should a minority citizen of middle-or upper-middle class background, of a similar education and acculturation as any caucasian, be given a priori an advantage? To make up for the centuries of discrimination preceding 1863? Or, for that matter, 1963? We no longer live in that world, thank God. Should we pretend we still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Affirmative Action for All Disadvantaged | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...race is Caucasian, but my ethnic heritage is a mix of Puerto Rican, Swiss, German and English. Should I join a club to learn about the ones with which I am least familiar? Should I learn about cultures that are not part of my ethnicity by attending, for example, Chinese Students Association meetings? Am I culturally deficient...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: Cultured Out | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

Dickerson said he saw the man--whom he described as being lanky and Caucasian--standing outside of his room before he entered Heestand's suite...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quincy House Students Find Elderly Man in Room | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

...students who attend the Stanford Middle School in the Los Altos neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., 34% are Hispanic, 22% Asian, 23% Caucasian, 17% African American, 3% Filipino and 2% either Pacific Islander or Native American. More than 75% qualify for the free or reduced-cost lunch program, thus enabling Stanford to receive federal funding under Title I. Because the district allows parents to choose their children's schools, only about one-third of the students reside in the neighborhood; the others arrive on 16 buses. When Stanford's rainbow coalition gets off those buses, it is a vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW TO WELL | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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