Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adherence to a popularly passed law. In their eyes, Carnesale was their servant, accountable above all else to undergraduate sentiment. If Carnesale would not disobey the law, protesters reasoned, perhaps he could be urged to issue public statements, as his predecessor had, criticizing 209 as harmful to the rich ethnic and racial diversity of UCLA. Despite a student takeover of the main administrative building and raging protests in campus quads, however, Carnesale refused to buckle...
Carnesale has done more than just stand up to the protesters, however; he has courageously one-upped them. Though he has refused to disobey the law, he remains committed to an ideal of racial, ethnic, and class diversity in the university. But he is working toward this ideal by chipping away at long-ignored systemic problems and shunning the quick fix of affirmative action...
Carnesale's handling of the Proposition 209 issue is instructive for us. When students at Harvard lobby for ethnic studies courses or cable TV and find their efforts stymied, they ought to remember that effective administrators must not simply cave in to what students believe to be in their interest, but instead are obliged to consider the most prudent path to the university's goals...
America's diverse peoples help make it great. But what good is that diversity if people from different ethnic backgrounds can't talk to and learn from each other? What good is that diversity if we don't understand the nation that we live in and the government that serves us? Diversity for the sake of diversity is worthless. For it to be worthwhile, it must improve and inspire us. It certainly should never place barriers between us. Unfortunately, allowing immigrants to avoid learning the language and about our values and government does just that: It leads to forced self...
...have to pay the same to end the killing in Kosovo? The Clinton Administration has long winced at the idea of going that far into the quicksand of Serbia's Kosovo province. But in defiance of the U.S.-brokered October cease-fire, the Serbs continue to massacre ethnic Albanians, and the implacable rebels keep smuggling in weaponry to pick off Serb forces, as both sides ready for a spring onslaught. So, last week the Clinton Administration and its NATO allies began the same risky investment to bring some kind of peace to Kosovo...