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Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 cut a large white ribbon at the Quad Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) last night, marking the opening of an improved exercise area that may put Quad residents on equal footing with their river neighbors...
...Zealanders equal - or do Maori deserve special status? The question nags at the nation like a toothache. But in militantly harmonious New Zealand, probing it can be painful. Most non-Maori would rather have root-canal work than be called a racist. But when Don Brash became leader of the conservative National Party in October, he thought the country "desperately needed to have an adult discussion" about race. So the former Reserve Bank governor, whose wife is a Chinese New Zealander, gave it one. In a speech on Jan. 27, he said the government's obsession with the 1840 Treaty...
...about standing side by side. It "created the partnership between two peoples of this country - one the colonizer, the other the first nation's people." Others, like Brash, say the treaty was about unity, not partnership: it laid the basis for a single nation in which all citizens have equal rights - including rights to preserve their culture and language. Since the late '80s, however, government and the courts have emphasized "biculturalism." Laws on development and conservation, research, education and the arts now call for special consultation with Maori on how to implement treaty principles. This view of the treaty also...
...Shop owner Wilson is more easygoing. She doesn't like Brash: "He's just trying to grab votes." But she thinks of herself as "New Zealander first, Maori second. Three-quarters of my extended family are Pakeha. Whether we're black, green, yellow or blue, we're all equal. At the end of the day I say, Kiwis, mate...
...incensed by Bush's vow during the State of the Union to preserve the sanctity of traditional marriage. He studied the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that said gay couples could marry, the Supreme Court's decision in the Texas sodomy case and the California constitution. The latter's equal-protection clause gave him the rationale he needed. He decided that Proposition 22--the successful 2000 ballot measure in California that defined marriage as between a man and a woman--was discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional...