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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intra-racism among Blacks does exist, and it is a problem that can be traced back to slave days, when darker-skinned Blacks were forced to work in more strenuous jobs than lighter-skinned Blacks. For years, some Blacks have straightened their hair, lightened their skin, and more recently changed their eye color to blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty. The problem has never been so clearly portrayed on screen as it was in Lee's movie...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: 'School Daze' Is Dazzling | 3/9/1988 | See Source »

...press conference, reporter Sam Donaldson asked President Reagan if he would consider sending support to the South African opposition, as he has done for the Nicaraguan contras. The President replied that he saw no reason to send aid to a country where such a wide variety of political positions exist...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Reagan's Hypocrisy in S. Africa | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

That only 29 of Harvard's 175 women faculty members are tenured bears out the claim that substantial, though subtle, barriers still exist, they...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Tenuring Women Profs: Not the 7% Solution | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...known that several of my comments and off-the-record quips were used out of context. Although I did affirm the reporter's inquiries about the existence of parties involving women from other universities and the existence of living quarters and pool tables in some of the clubs, I in no way implied that such living quarters exist expressly for "one night stands" and that pool tables exist as the next best alternative for such nocturnal interludes. This is not only an uncomfortable prospect, it is a bizarre one as well. Let rumors be rumors, but also let the facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Clubs | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...Core's problem is not large courses; large, popular courses exist at all universities. But the Core forces students into large courses by offering no other alternatives, as if subjecting us to inescapable hours of MTV re-runs (Help!, Michael Jackson, and Michael Sandel--All Day, All Night...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: Re-Core-ded Live at Sanders | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

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