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Opponents have accused Kucinich of using racist appeals in his campaigns. In the nonpartisan mayoral primary, Kucinich polled only 15.3 per cent of the black vote compared to 25.3 per cent for Republican Lieutenant Governor George V. Voinovich. Still, Kucinich delivers speeches in the black ghetto to tumultuous applause and former mayor Carl Stokes has strongly endorsed him, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I understand that in a diverse city in which racial politics has been the order of the day, that, if a man is going to survive, he has to do what everyone who has survived has done...
...John, who injured his knee in the UMass game, is "fine, not 100 per cent, but fine," in Restic's words...
When Faculty members discovered that the only alternative--and the one the University eventually adopted--was to admit 40 per cent more women, they got nervous again. Increased enrollment might mean greater demands placed on Faculty in the form of more tutorials and larger lectures. Greater teaching commitment--never a chore relished by the Faculty--dampened any enthusiasm for expanded enrollment...
...Class of '79--the last to enter under dual, non-equal access system--numbered 3382. Applications from women jumped to 3696 the following year and reached a record 4901 to the current freshman class. The number of female applicants from the Class of '79 rose 45 per cent between the class of '79 and the class of '83, while for male applicants the increase measured only seven per cent...
...female applicant pool also became more economically diverse. Nearly 25 per cent of women in the Class of '79 qualified for financial aid, compared to 42.3 per cent in this year's freshman class. By contrast, 41.7 per cent of the current freshman class qualified for aid, making the class of '83 the first in which the percentage of women qualifying for assistance surpasses that...