Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a week of fighting, Sri Lankan troops had battled their way up Jaffna Peninsula, ousting ethnic Tamil separatists from a number of strongholds in the northern tip of the island nation. The cost was high: as many as 200 civilians believed dead and thousands more left without food. But, said a high-ranking official in Colombo, the capital, "we were winning...
...student-faculty Racial Harassment Committee to determine precedent and procedure for dealing with racial harassment, and a student-faculty Academic Affairs Committee to deal with increasing racial awareness by means of the curriculum. The Academic Affairs Committee is currently investigating ways to increase the number of courses on American ethnic minorities and the number of minority faculty members...
While O'Neill felt more comfortable with the largely ethnic, blue collar constituency of Cambridge, rather than the more intellectual university crowd of Harvard, Tufts, and MIT, he rarely failed to introduce and support bills favorable to the entire district...
Within the population of Black students at the College some individuals clearly boast a greater propensity to meet one aim than the other; like those of any other ethnic subgroup, Blacks here have come from a variety of social classes. However, in a number of cases (and I have seen them) the competing pressures that flow from the diversity principle have led to more than a bit of social schizophrenia...
...important to emphasize that this tension of competing interests on the part of the University and its members is more than just a story of the strains accompanying the process of assimiliation of an ethnic group. In other situations and in other times students of other non-English ethnicities have felt torn between the desires for assimiliation and social mobility and the need to identify with their ethnic group. For most, this conflict is predominantly internal. For Black students, the battle is external as well, involving the daily, Herculean labor of confronting a broader university population which in one breath...