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Actor Richard Gere's article on the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, was inspiring, informative and motivating. We all should be concerned with the plight of Tibet. We must protest the oppression of Tibet and its people at the hands of the Chinese. Gere's description of the Dalai Lama warmed my heart and calmed my spirit...
...choice of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch politician and director whose film Submission portrays a Muslim woman ritually abused by the men in her family. As a female practicing Muslim living in the West, I have found it frustrating that the Western media are obsessed with the "plight" of Muslim women. While there is progress to be made in women's rights in the Muslim world, change does not necessarily have to occur within the Western framework. Most Muslims find Hirsi Ali too extreme, though we don't agree with honor killings. Why not pick someone who genuinely...
...principles of diversity tell us that interacting with people of different backgrounds is enlightening, but it takes more than passively interacting to truly integrate. Only by devoting time or dedicating oneself to the worthwhile cause of others that can one truly understand their plight. Our self-separation makes many pressing causes of the day seem to not be our own, and only getting involved in these organizations and communities can make us understand how we fit into the solution. All we have to do is start simple. There are no racial restrictions to any of the ethnic organizations on campus...
Wilson's views haven't changed. The plight of black theater, he says, is even worse today, while color-blind casting has exploded--Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar and James Earl Jones in On Golden Pond on Broadway this spring alone. "If I see a production of Gem of the Ocean with a white cast, maybe I'll change my mind. But Death of a Salesman with a black cast--that's not the way blacks respond to this problem. It's a white play. It's intended to be." He realizes that is not a popular view among African...
...Kesse. “[But] I was completely honest with them when they asked to join, that I’m not going shift my discussions or my agenda from being black-specific to being minority-specific…if you are dedicated to what we believe and the [plight of the] black people, then I welcome...