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An admirable drive by council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 to recruit more female candidates for the council had little impact, as just 36.1 percent of this year's candidates and 33 percent of winners were women. This constitutes a minor improvement compared with last year's council, which was...
While a white patient has an 81 percent chance of finding a marrow match, an American Indian has a 75 percent, an Hispanic a 64 percent chance, an Asian a 55 percent chance and an African-American only a 47 percent chance of a match, Belvin said.
What's more maddening to national-test advocates is the defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote...
"They came and said, ' Union 11 isn't allowed here, you need 24 hours notice,'" Baca said. "I was just shocked. I thought, What's going on? We're here just to meet with students. '" Baca and the four other students in the all-Hispanic group were planning to talk...
"Automatically they assumed that restaurant workers are Hispanics. They assumed just because we're Hispanic we're going to be members of Local 11," Baca said.