Word: colorado
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...Will Perkins, the leader of Colorado Family Values, a group instrumental in passing the famous "antigay" amendment she said, "He can relate to homosexuals, he says, because he's a car salesman. 'People make fun of our pants and our white shoes.' Yes, that is so similar. That must be hell...
...Ethnic studies is not the same thing as area studies," says Evelyn Hu-deHart, professor of history and director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder...
...just last week, the University of Colorado at Boulder approved the creation of an ethnic studies department. Until now, students have been able to major in ethnic studies, with a concentration in "Afro-American studies, American Indian studies, Asian American studies or Chicano/Latino studies...
Burns says he's merely doing what his constituents want. In the last election, he points out, "I got 62% of the vote." The constituencies of the West have been changing, however. Out-of-staters looking for a better life have flowed into places like Colorado and New Mexico, bringing concerns over development. Even as Utah's Hansen was pushing his bare-bones wilderness proposal, polls showed that a majority of his constituents wanted more wilderness set aside. Says Ken Rait of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: "He calls what he's doing 'The will of the West.' But which...
With "swing" Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy lobbing skeptical questions at Colorado's solicitor general, who was defending the state's anti-gay-rights measure, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could yield the most important discrimination decision of the new term. At issue is whether Colorado voters violated U.S. Equal Protection guarantees when they approved a ban on laws or policies forbidding discrimination against homosexuals...