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Last month when the Coalition for Diversity embarked on its campaign to improve conditions of "The Peculiar Institution," members said they were steadily gaining steam as they made the rounds visiting high-ranking University officials...
...member of the coalition, but have followed its activity actively. The purpose of the Coalition For Diversity is explicitly expressed in its name. Its initial demands, listed in the "Peculiar Institution" flyer distributed at Junior Parent's Weekend, included a response to Harvey Mansfield's comments that grade inflation was a product of affirmative action and the enrollment of increasing numbers of Black students on campus, greater efforts in the hiring of and tenuring of minority faculty, ethnic studies in the academic curriculum, and fair representation of Asian/Asian-American students in events and student panels similar to the "Celebrating Diversity...
...Uplifter in many ways resembles the DF. Yet it can easily be distinguished by its curious migratory patterns. Christian Uplifters often disappear over weekends and can sometimes be spotted as vans spirit them away to mysterious locales in Western Massachussets. In addition to their extroverted manner, they exhibit a peculiar compulsion to take up guitar and singing as a hobby. And of course, the Christian Uplifter species did not evolve, but was created...
...last two weeks have been filled with peculiar events involving the Council. First, the Council took out twin ads, in two different campus publications, detailing spring grant allocations. The Council also took o' 'an ad, "A New Spirit of Openness," in Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson's weekly magazine...
Whether or not their reservations are at all justified, the peculiar scruples of a rag-tag assortment of small-time politicians hardly serve as an effective guide for educational policy...