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...time we stop hiding behind our individual issues and see the connection between them all,” wrote Benjamin H. Schatz ’81 in a letter to The Crimson. “Women’s issues affect every single one of us and demand our full support...
...officials were accused themselves of cooking up numbers to beef up their minority representation.In order to boost its image, the Kennedy School allegedly inflated the number of female and black faculty in a report, prompting many alumni and students to rally behind the cause of greater minority representation and demand greater dedication to affirmative action from the school.The final complaint, laid at the door of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) by the national women’s rights group Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL) claimed that the positions of two black female research associates...
...worry is this. Polyglot is fine. When immigrants, like those in Brooklyn, are members of a myriad of linguistic communities, each tiny and discrete, there is no threat to the common culture. No immigrant presumes to make the demand that the state grant special status to his language. He may speak it in the street and proudly teach it to his children, but he knows that his future and certainly theirs lie inevitably in learning English as the gateway to American life...
Today's monoclonal linguistic culture is far from hypothetical. Growing rapidly through immigration, it creates large communities--in some places already majorities--so overwhelmingly Spanish speaking that, in time, they may quite naturally demand the rights and official recognition for Spanish that French has in French-speaking Qu?...
...speak three languages. My late father spoke nine. When he became a naturalized American in midcentury, it never occurred to him to demand of his new and beneficent land that whenever its government had business with him--tax forms, court proceedings, ballot boxes--that it should be required to communicate in French, his best language, rather than English, his last and relatively weakest...