Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resulted in uncertainty about who is responsible for initiative in these areas-the admissions and financial aid offices or the program directors and department chairmen. Although recruitment funds have been virtually eliminated, the first priority for whatever recruitment takes place on an informal or volunteer basis will be ethnic minorities. "We have no plans for recruitment of women," said Benjamin V. White III '63, assistant dean of Admissions...
...moral decay. But American politics is a politics of property, not of principle. Victory goes to the man who can achieve the broadest consensus among contending self-seeking groups. Goldwaterism and Buckley conservatism contain few ideas that can be given institutional form-so the unions, farmers, business executives, blacks, ethnic groups, the aged and the unemployed will never vote for their candidates. Only small business owners and other independent types are sufficiently free from institutional needs to assert their prejudices in the ballot box. After the Goldwater debacle, Buckley started chortling that it is far more important to influence history...
ANOTHER hallmark of the Buckley approach is the either/or proposition he plants in almost everything he says. A quintessential Buckley sentence is "The purpose of education is to educate, not to promise a synthetic integration by numerically balancing ethnic groups in the classroom." The mind reels. Does education necessarily preclude integration? and vice versa? Is not learning to live with those of another race a valuable part of education? No, no, says Mr. Buckley, education is an " intellectual rather than a sociological process." Or: "It does not follow that if someone is old enough to die in Vietnam...
...Anda, a Texas lawyer, has worked on a substantial number of civil rights cases involving racial and ethnic discrimination in his home state. One of the first lawyers in Texas to bring de facto segregation school cases to court, De Anda will discuss his civil rights experience in Texas...
...Irish applied the same mixture of skill, showmanship, and exclusion to boxing that they did to the polities of the same period. (Sullivan, despie his boast, refused to meet Peter Jackson, the greatest of the heavyweight "Colored Boxing Champions of America.") Their boxers, like their priests and politicians, became ethnic standard-bearers and played the role to the hilt. When John L. walked the streets of Southie wearing his diamondstudded belt and raved that there were "enough Sullivans to make an army big enough to capture Canada from the British and make it Irish like it oughta be," even...