Word: established
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into other endeavors which we hope will reach more faculty and more administrators in a more influential way," says Alex H. Cho '96, a member of ESAC. "[Previous protests] have been more heated, but they've marked a different stage, where we had to do that in order to establish campus presence...
...pair of new initiatives are aiming to establish Loker Commons as more than just an eatery...
...Vere Bird Sr., the tiny island with a population of only 63,000 became one of the most corrupt in the region, long known for sheltering traffickers in armaments and drugs. According to U.S. intelligence sources, Bird's son Vere Jr. has been tied to a 1990 plot to establish a school that would train mercenaries to fight for the Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments to the cartel through Antigua, Panama and Colombia. U.S. investigators contend that the Bird dynasty--the current Prime Minister is Vere's son Lester--continues to look...
Fortunately, that was not the only trend. At Columbia, for example, there has been an Afro-American studies program--on paper anyway--since 1969. But it was not until 1993, after several student protests, that the university hired respected radical historian Manning Marable to establish and direct the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, which now boasts 60 courses and 25 faculty members with affiliations in 10 other academic departments...
...students say it is challenging to establish a "broad background" for so vast a region, and some say they don't think the department meets this task very well...