Word: originated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Section II of the Penn code, the passage challenged by the students, forbids any "verbal or symbolic behavior" that "insults or demeans [a] person on the basis of his or her race, color, ethnicity, or national origin...
...haven't forgotten, conservatives regard ancient Greece as the origin of Western civilization. If you haven't forgotten, ancient Greece glorified homosexual love. The closest civilization has ever come to destroying itself was in this century when a nation more concerned about 'the common good' than the rights of individuals, imprisoned and murdered as many homosexuals as it could. And did it without shame...
Claire Fagin, the interim president, is reevaluating Part II of the code, which forbids any "verbal or symbolic behavior" that "insults or demeans [a] person on the basis of his or her race, color, ethnicity, or national origin by the use of slurs, epithets, hate words, demeaning jokes, or derogatory stereotypes...
...suit, Viatcheslav Abramian, a Russian citizen, charges that Harvard officials, including Police Chief Paul E. Johnson and Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling, discriminated against him on the basis of his national origin...
...program had its origin in the richly fertile intellect of Prof. Henry Louis Gates and in his talent for launching serious intellectual activity...