Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ethnic Diversity
...writing in response to Melissa Langsam's piece, "The Last Oppressed Minority" (Opinion, March 31), in which she parallels political intolerance for Republicans with the discrimination that historically persecuted sexual, ethnic and religious minorities have faced for centuries. She writes of "being in the closet" as a Republican while here at Harvard, comparing the historically homosexual hiding place with her own reticence about her political beliefs. Such a comparison is disingenuous at best, downright offensive at worst. Homosexuals have been actively discriminated against from the Holocaust to the Red Scare, and I am not aware of any such movements...
...approved. It called for an elected PBHA Inc. Board of Trustees comprised of students and non-students--with the non-student membership to be recruited in roughly equal parts from human service, donor, alum, academic, and Harvard administrative communities. Special effort was to be made to represent the ethnic composition of PBHA Inc. client populations...
...result of actively pursuing a policy of gender and ethnic equity will undoubtedly involve the faculty better reflecting current availability statistics, something which, regardless of the method of measurement, certainly cannot be said now. --Anna Baldwin '00, ASGF '97 organizer
This is nothing new for a neighborhood where Irish and German gangs fought pitched battles in the streets during the 1850s. But the intolerance has roots in the present as well as the past. Since 1980, when low real estate prices began drawing Chinese and Mexicans into Bridgeport, the ethnic texture of the place has changed dramatically. Today Halsted Street, Bridgeport's commercial artery, is a bustling carnival of whites, Mexicans, Asians and blacks who mingle in the bakeries, the grocery stores and the luncheonettes...