Word: ethnically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...percent of undergraduates chose to identify themselves as "other" or "unknown," according to the Harvard University Fact Book. Due to the paucity of multiracial or biracial students' organizations at Harvard, these students are left searching for a place to fit in. If they want to get involved with an ethnic organization, they must choose which aspect of their heritage to identify with. It is appalling that in a diverse college community like Harvard, a multi-ethnic identity is not given sufficient recognition by the student body and the administration...
Diabetes testing is another major change. A glucose test is now recommended every three years for all women over age 45--not just for those known to be at high risk for diabetes. ACOG also changed its definition of high risk, expanding it to include women in ethnic groups that are disproportionately vulnerable: African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans...
...There's been ample support where you don't feel you're at a disadvantage because you are an ethnic minority," he says. "Yes, I hear where students don't get adequate support, but that's not because they are an ethnic minority...
...Gardenhire says that she would like to see more minority professors in departments outside of ethnic studies. In her six years at Harvard, she says, she has taken just one course from a black professor...
...closer examination of the conflict quashes the popular predilection for bestowing states on oppressed minorities, yet it also casts doubt on the viability of continued rule. If nothing else the war in Chechnya is a lesson in the complexities and lack of real solutions to ethnic conflict, and a rebuke to the advocates of easy answers...