Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buried beneath this ethnic jousting is a serious issue. Over the years, affirmative-action programs have become diluted as more and more groups have been awarded minority status. If the Lalonde bill makes it through the state senate and is signed into law, roughly half of Louisiana's 4 million residents will belong to officially designated minority groups...
...academic challenge that Raul Perez '90, a minority activist and a member of the steering committee of the Chicano student organization RAZA, has in mind. It's the challenge of being a member of an underrepresented ethnic group at a school with a reputation for stasis...
...would seem more productive to understand the great university--say Harvard--as more of a democratizing than a democratic institution. There, ideally, are brought together peoples of all different ethnic, religious, racial and class backgrounds dedicated to what must be non-democratic principles: the pursuit of dispassionate truths and a healthy (and critical) respect for traditions and authorities that have earned our attention. Most will not stay on after their four years here, and therein lies the university's annual gift to the public world ever since enrollments opened up after World War II: a democratized, de-aristocricized corps...
...cigar workers pooled their resources to establish hospitals and mutual- aid societies. They built elaborate ethnic clubs complete with cafes, ballrooms and theaters, some of which attracted the best opera singers and actresses of the day from Spain, Italy and Cuba. "The culture of the cigar worker was evolved to a degree hardly found elsewhere in the proletariat," says County Historian Anthony Pizzo...
...control. Last week renewed unrest flared in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan; the Communist Party at week's end dismissed the party leaders of the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The continued turmoil suggests that Gorbachev's decision to allow dissent among ethnic minorities could still return to haunt him. So could the withdrawal from Afghanistan, especially if it were to result in a takeover in Kabul by the fiercely anti-Soviet, fundamentalist Islamic mujahedin...