Word: fostering
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...school he will head was founded with a $1.1 million grant from Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh newspaper publisher and heir to the Mellon fortune who funds some of the most virulent anti-Clinton organizations. Although former counsel Robert Fiske, the coroner and the FBI found that Vince Foster's death was a suicide, Starr reopened that investigation. Scaife has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Western Journalism Center, whose newspaper ads obsessing over the circumstances of Foster's death have pulled in nearly a quarter of a million dollars during the 2 1/2 years Starr has held...
Sung said she hopes the dance will help foster inter-class unity...
...Multicultural Student Center will a) foster multicultural exchange or b) foster segregation...
...started dividing [Harvard] up, saying this race goes here. It would diminish the University," said Archie C. Epps III, in an article in The Crimson, Nov.2, 1995. Opponents argue that the center, regardless of its pluralistic name, would become a sort of safe haven for minorities and foster segregation. This argument is much weakened when we look at the status quo right now student groups are divided up with offices scattered in Thayer Basement and Holworthy Basement. Most groups do not even have an office. At any rate, there exist on campus a series of what might be dubbed monocultural...
...intent of the university. The fears of actual physical segregation of ethnic groups have already been realized by the status quo. Moreover, the fact that the university officially recognizes both the existence and importance of different ethnic groups begs the question of why it will tolerate and even foster intragroup relations by supporting ethnic groups but not intergroup relations by denying them a center to interact. To argue that such a center will isolate different ethnic groups indicates a lack of understanding of what functions such a center would serve...