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Also yesterday, a professor called for an emergency meeting to plan the University’s response to the impending war with Iraq, Ethnic Studies was approved as an official standing committee of the Faculty, and new academic requirements for first years were approved...
There was, however, some consensus at yesterday’s Faculty meeting. The Faculty was unanimous in its vote to make Ethnic Studies a standing committee...
Fast-forward to Dennis Miller in the post-Sept. 11 era. He has advocated ethnic profiling at airports, contended (albeit half-jokingly) that America should test a nuclear bomb “just to let [the terrorists] know we’re sitting on a nice hold card,” declared his support for military action to topple Saddam Hussein and, in recent months, disclosed that he is a “Bush fan.” What happened...
Gigante's ethnic flavor isn't welcomed by all. Last year the Anaheim planning commission tried to block a store proposed for the site of an abandoned shopping mall, in part because it would cater, as the head of the agency put it, "primarily to the Hispanic market." And what, you might wonder, is wrong with that? Non-Hispanic whites make up just 36% of the city's population, down from 56% in 1990, while the Latino share of residents has risen from 31% in 1990 to 47% today. But many of the Latinos can't or don't vote...
Panelists said ethnic profiling stemming from restrictive national security measures has become a prominent concern for the nation’s Muslim community...