Word: color
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...black students are halted at the entrance of the Club 100, a Cambridge social club, and asked by the owner to present "membership cards." Twenty-one days of student picketing and protest later, the owner signs a 126-word statement asserting that "race, creed of color" will not keep patrons out of the club...
...referendum in which California residents barred the state from "grant[ing] preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethinicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting," with the exception of jobs that have "bona fide" sex-based qualifications...
Upon first arriving here, Harvard was imbued with an indelible aura, a mythical glamour the color of Crimson tradition. Although the glamour was alluring, it was also distancing. Places with so much history and so much grandeur rarely lend themselves to intense personal involvement or relationship. Over the years, the glow fades. Part of me mourns this loss, the end of enchantment. However, perhaps it is for the best that Harvard loses its rosy glow as we live here. When the College loomed so large, we felt too small to impact its future; as its size diminished, our power...
...students who sued U.T. law school for racial discrimination. This has caused significant drops in undergraduate minority admissions at U.T. and Texas A&M, the leading schools in the state system, and may result in an even greater drop-off in enrollment, since financial aid must also now be color-blind. In California's case, the impetus for revising its university admissions policies is Proposition 209, the successful 1996 ballot initiative. The changes implemented by the law schools this year won't apply to undergraduates until...
Before her fourth-grade class on the Monday after her Friday disappointment, Tracy Robinson loads the manipulatives--the little bars of different colors, each representing a different fraction--into plastic bags. When her students walk in, she distributes the bags. The book she was reading from on Friday is nowhere in evidence. She asks her pupils to use the bars to construct flat, box-shaped designs on their desks. Three of one color, they soon discover, will fill the same space as four of another. When each child has a mosaic on his or her desk, Robinson begins the verbal...