Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost as long as there have been minorities at the Law School, there have been minorities protesting the ethnic breakdown--or lack of breakdown--on the Law School faculty. The school boasts 58 white men, one Black man, and one white woman in its tenured positions. Until December of 1980, there were two Blacks tenured on the faculty, and when Prof. Derrick Bell resigned to take the deanship at Oregon's law school, minority students geared up immediately. They wanted to urge the Law School to act quickly to bring another minority who would at least maintain the old status...
...young professionals since 1979 has quintupled the price of some houses and pushed up rents as much as 70%. M.I.T. Urban Studies Assistant Professor Yohel Camayd-Freixas claims that more than a quarter of the area's Hispanic residents have thus been forced out. Residents of other traditionally ethnic neighborhoods, notably the South End (60% nonwhite), the North End and East Boston (Italian), worry about the same creeping dislocation. To Mayor White, however, it is unambiguously "a good thing that richer, professional people are moving in, buying condos. Most neighborhoods are whipped right...
During World War I, the Turks exterminated or deported virtually their entire Armenian population because they held the unfounded suspicion that members of the ethnic group were disloyal. The decision to undertake the genocide was communicated to the local leaders by the Interior Minister, Talaat Pasha, in 1915. One of his edicts stated that the government had decided to "destroy completely all Armenians living in Turkey. An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to age, or sex, or to scruples of conscience...
...town of immigrants and their offspring-Poles, Greeks, Italians, Yugoslavs-whose sense of ethnic and familial snugness is reinforced by friendships forged on the steel-mill floors. This closeness was depicted in the movie The Deer Hunter, whose home-town scenes were filmed in Weirton. "You just know everybody," says Fran Crow, 27, a third-grade teacher. Her husband John, 28, has been furloughed from his job as a Weirton Steel salesman, one of 2,600 who received a pink slip in the past two years. "At first I was thrilled," he says. "I thought I'd play...
...They are very content to stay in their own house," she explains, adding that the neighborhood's reputation for friendliness is an "ethnic closeness" that is much greater within a particular ethnic group...