Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year 2000, the total number of minority children will have increased by more than 25 percent from what it is today while the number of white children will only increase two-tenths of one percent, according to a Washington-based advocacy group. Many of these minority children will be poor, the offspring of today's impoverished ghetto and barrio youth...
...council has no power to effect change, but it can still fulfill its role as Harvard's conscience--nudging and poking the University when its actions contradict its highly-touted educational mission. The council can also crystallize student opinion and serve as an umbrella group for different student organizations working for a common cause. The council-supported rally for minority and women faculty held two weeks ago is an example of the type of positive action the council is capable of taking...
Last week a group of women started a new program to provide walking escorts to students, staff and faculty members who are out late at night. The program is intended to supplement the University's one-car escort service that shuts down at 3 a.m. These students should not have to provide a service which Harvard has an obligation to give to its community...
...seen as a representative of an entire group can lead to feelings of pain, anger and frustration."--Niti Seth, a counsellor at the Bureau of Study Counsel, at an AWARE week forum...
Similar cases can be drawn for non-minority private school students, who are also overrepresented in the early group...