Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest reflects a worrisome increase in racial incidents on U.S. campuses, including Columbia and the University of Michigan last year. At UMASS, tensions have run high since a 1986 black-white brawl among 1,500 students. Five months ago, an independent report criticized the university for a "historical denial" of the racial problems. Black students, who constitute 2.7% of the 26,400 student body, hailed the new agreement as a turning point...
...army" of supporters. Actually, Robertson supporters functioned less like an army than a skilled commando brigade. They understood the caucus system well and adroitly concentrated on group voting. Robertson organizers even rented buses to deliver their supporters to meetings en masse. Throughout the South and in such states as Michigan and Minnesota, Robertson has built up similarly efficient organizations full of fervent campaigners...
...Second Coming, which Robertson has said will be televised worldwide by satellite, had occurred on the night after the Michigan caucuses, his principal organizer, R. Marc Nuttle, would have missed it, because, after carefully adjusting the outsize earphones to his pocket-size television set, he found that the batteries were dead. Craning over Nuttle's shoulder in the staff van was Connie Snapp, the "communications director" of the campaign, who had tried to bring her candidate into Michigan and leave the traveling press behind (a maneuver so foolish that the staff man with the candidate disregarded it). What slickness...
Cleary remembers Harvard's final practice before the 1986 NCAA Championship game in Providence, R.I. Joe Cavanaugh's kids skated with the team right before the Big Game against Michigan State. Just keep the game fun, coach...
...Justice Department will conduct an investigation of the recent distribution of white supremacist literature at the University of Michigan, officials at the university's Black Students' Union (BSU) said this week...