Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, despite government decrees that guarantee equal rights for Indians and the new presidency in Guatemala of human-rights champion Ramiro de Leon Carpio, indigenous peoples like the Maya remain at the bottom rung of the political and economic ladder. In Chiapas, where the natives speak nine different languages, literacy rates are about 50%, compared with 88% for Mexico as a whole. Infant mortality among the Maya is 500 per 1,000 live births, 10 times as high as the national average. And 70% of the Indians in the countryside lack access to potable water...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating a complaint that charges Harvard with favoring African-Americans and discriminating against Hispanics and Asian-Americans in its minority fellowship program...
...complaint, Andres Paniagua, who was denied a position in the program for the past academic year, charges that because the leadership of Harvard's Office of the Assistant to the President for Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity, James Hoyte '65, is Black, other minorities are excluded from the programs it administers...
...limited participation of minority groups other than the one that actually runs this program and Harvard University's Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Office, serves as evidence of racial patronage and favoritism in the recruitment, selection process and placement of fellows," Paniagua said in his complaint...
...lowest standing as a potentially disadvantaged group under the 14th Amendment. Since then, activists have achieved limited success with maverick lower courts by citing similar protections in the Fifth Amendment. However, Laurence Tribe, a constitutional- law scholar at Harvard, deems a challenge to the new regulations through equal protection "an uphill fight...