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...tenth female professor out of 69 law school faculty members, making women about 15 percent of the school's faculty. Compared to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where women make up slightly over 10 percent of the total faculty, the law school is not doing that badly. Fifteen percent may not be much, but it certainly represents some progress...
Until 1950 the University of Texas Law School excluded blacks entirely. (In the 1940s it had tried to offer them a separate facility in the basement.) Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare found that the school had still failed to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. Soon after, the university adopted a new admissions policy: black or Mexican-American applicants would now be considered by a separate committee and admitted under lower standards than those required of whites. After four white students were rejected in 1992, they brought suit. Last year a federal judge ruled that...
...thousand people pack into the Union for each meal. If everyone enjoyed themselves enough to hang around, there would never be enough room. Maybe the Union staff is trying to kick people out. Or maybe they're just trying to help first-years keep off the dreaded `Freshman Fifteen.' Like Plum Crazy Cookie Bars with prune paste instead of sugar, the backroom paintings discourage dessert...
...Fifteen teams competed in a round-robin format to determine which four would advance to the semi-finals...
When the bus carrying O'Dell Wills from Mississippi to Chicago in 1950 neared its destination, the sharecroppers' son could hardly contain his excitement. "When we hit the city limits," he recalls, "I said, 'Wow! I'm home free. This is heaven.'" Fifteen years later, Dorothy Tillman, a civil rights worker arriving from Alabama, saw the high-rise apartment buildings where most blacks then lived and had a different reaction. "Look at all them there factories in the middle of the city," she said to her companion. "Those are not factories," he replied. "People live there...