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...does have. To expect students who come from ethnic communities to disassociate themselves from their previous experience is ridiculous, and to deny minority students who do not come from ethnic communities the opportunity to share experiences and celebrate a heritage is racist. It is racist because America is a pluralist society where different experiences should not be ranked in order of desirability with monolithic Anglo-Saxon Protestant sensibilities on top. Anyone who has lived in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, or New York knows that multicultural and amalgam communities are the norm, not the exception...
...challenged them. Communist regimes have not been known for power sharing, and skeptics wonder if a true multiparty system will emerge. But Karoly Ravasz, spokesman for the | Independent Smallholders party, was convinced that the change was genuine. Said he: "We are now on the road of a pluralist society...
...administration was trying to make Harvard less discriminatory, more pluralist. In the past few years they markedly stepped up minority recruitment. They cut ties with the exclusive final clubs. They started tenuring women in increasing numbers...
...serious, denominationally neutral alternative. Is William Rusher, the outspoken conservative publisher of National Review, intolerant of religion because he supports a moment of silence? By questioning the religious, indeed the constitutional, bona fides of his opponents, the President has crossed a line: the line that in a pluralist society divides civil discourse from demagoguery...
...doctrine articulated in the report also carries a note of naivete, for it fails to address the problem that the College and minority students have consistently interpreted events differently, and will probably continue to do so. What the administration views as "separatist," students may consider simply "pluralist" or "diverse"--goals the College has forcefully supported...