Word: ethnics
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...gone begging to multinational banks and international donors. The foreign reserves it gains allow the regime to buy weapons and maintain a brutal control exercised in the 1998 massacres of demonstrators and students. The military establishment has maintained its power over much of the country despite rebellion by oppressed ethnic minorities and the democratic election which the military lost...
This decision came after several ethnic organizations criticized the policy of the Undergraduate Admissions Council (UAC), the organizers of the fair, which limited the numbers of groups invited to table at fair this Saturday...
With less than a week remaining before the teeming ranks of the class of 2002 descend on Cambridge for pre-frosh weekend, a crisis over the involvement of ethnic student organizations in the extracurricular activities fair was averted yesterday with the decision to open the extracurricular fair to more student organizations...
...mail sent yesterday to student leaders, UAC co-chair Adam R. Kovacevich '99, said that the council felt the fairest policy was "to select a cross-sampling of groups that tend to represent extracurricular 'niches' on campus." Many ethnic organizations also host their own receptions and are already represented in a panel discussion of minority groups, Kovacevich added...
...make a blanket statement like 'no ethnic organizations in the fair' makes no sense, and I think there is enough evidence to claim discrimination," she wrote in an e-mail message to the Undergraduate Council...