Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article in yesterday's Crimson misidentified last night's keynote speaker for AWARE week. John Davidio is a professor at Colgate University. In addition, The Crimson title of Davidio's lecture was misidentified. The correct title was "Racism Among the Well-Intentioned...
...University of Michigan has a history of racial incidents. Members of minority groups say they think a required course can correct the insensitivity that leads to incidents like Black students receiving insulting notes under their doors...
...there is definitely an argument to be made that the petition did not actually reflect student opinion, since it stated the plan incorrectly. Freshmen signed the petition under the misimpression that it represented the true lottery plan, and no one on the Undergraduate Council bothered to correct the mistakes before the document reached administrators' desks...
While it is disturbing that none of the masters or administrators bothered to correct the rumors being circulated about the lottery, the blame for allowing the misimpression to interfere with the success of student protest must ultimately lie with those who wrote and backed the petition...
...petition's organizers should have made sure they fully understood the provisions of the new lottery plan before attempting to explain it to their freshmen signers. But it is nothing less than irresponsible for the council not to make any effort to correct the mistake before furthering the document, particularly when council members sit on the student-administrator committee which debated the masters' plan with Jewett. To have failed to do so was a grave disservice to the freshmen who signed the petition in good faith, and an embarrassment to a council which claims to be actively representing student interests...