Word: exclusionism
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Whether the justification is academic orfinancial, some students simply find therestrictions unacceptable. The professors' concernover academic qualification smacks of paternalismand exclusion, they say.
The thinking behind exclusion has a distinct cold war slant, reflecting the 40-year period during which U.S. geostrategy ignored events and concerns outside the life-and-death struggle between the West and Moscow. In the past it was Russia's strength that drove U.S. policy; today it is Boris...
Officials of Women Appealing for Change (WAC), a group challenging the final clubs' exclusion of female members, are refusing to retract allegations that the Delphic Club was responsible for a prank played on their organization.
Hasty Pudding President Jeremy S. Nye '94 saidthe exclusion of females from certain casts isjust a part of the theater.
Such nativist sentiments only grew after the Civil War. The once vast frontier seemed less vast, and economic recessions raised fears that cheap foreign laborers might take American jobs. There was also the openly racist argument that some newcomers, Asians especially, could not be "assimilated." In 1882 Congress passed the...