Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RECENTLY, student groups have voiced concern over the lack of courses targeted at minority issues in the College. With scant opportunity to study ethnic and minority issues, a Harvard education is severely lacking...
...this month Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) A. Michael Spence proposed one response to these problems. The administration plans to bring a visiting scholar to campus each semester to teach courses about ethnic groups in the United States, providing for about five classes in ethnic studies each year...
...statistics that we know are troubling: they imply that Harvard admits proportionally fewer Asian-Americans than all other ethnic groups, even though their applicant pool is more qualified acadmically. On average, only 13.3 percent of Asian-American applicants are admitted to Harvard versus 17 percent for white applicants. And Asian-Americans admitted to Harvard in 1982 and 1983 had SAT scores 50 to 100 points higher than their white counterparts. Even though Asian-American applications this decade have soared, their proportion of Ivy League student bodies in the early 1980's has remained between 10 and 12 percent. What...
...weeks ago, the party's Central Committee announced a mid-1989 plenum to discuss the sensitive ethnic issue; the outcome may help shape a policy that goes beyond current disjointed prescriptions. In examining the Soviet Union's ethnic dilemma, TIME offers a report on the two republics that present Gorbachev with his greatest challenge: Estonia and Armenia...
...Estonia, advocates of increased local autonomy risk a collision with Moscow over the limits of mutual sovereignty. In Armenia, anger continues to rise over the status of the ethnic minority in Azerbaijan. -- Benazir Bhutto wins the vote, but will she get to govern Pakistan? -- P. L. O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declares a Palestinian state in the West Bank...