Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blame can be laid at the doors of Duke's residential fraternities on West Campus, which physically and socially segregate minorities from the elite white-boys who live there. In the Theta Chi house, I saw only one minority. A glance at a decade's worth of group photos revealed only lily-white faces...
...debates may be bad. But the way in which Babbitt cast aspersions on the debates was significant--he said "the League of Women Voters" as though those words were a put-down in and of themselves. He used the group as an adjective to signify weak and laughable, and he furthered the stereotypical image of women as irrelevant busybodies with the term "prissy." In essence, he carried all the baggage of traditional sexism that has marginalized women in the political process...
...similarity ends at appearances. I don't intend to tar the entire Duke student body with one brush, as my criticism is directed at a specific group of Duke institutions and students. But in four days at Duke I witnessed more incidents of overt racism, sexism and homophobia than in two years at Harvard...
While talking to a group of frat members, I referred to a 22-year-old female acquaintance as a woman. The brothers looked at me incredulously. "They're girls here," explained...
...earlier interview, Cotton said that his group thinks it should be the applicant's responsibility to request information about crime. "We believe that you should have asked those questions when you came to look at the school," he said...