Word: quos
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...problem with this approach to the racial situation on campus is that it tolerates the status quo and says that what is is the best that there can be. It claims as beneficial the tension experienced by minorities here because such thick skin is what it takes to make it in the real world. But a double standard of comfortability seems to be at work in this mean logic. Certainly WASPs have the need to feel comfortable on this campus, and no one faults them for retreating into their final club lairs. (I know, I know, you have a black...
Despite the numerous tragic events during her life, Harper Hines said she is content with her efforts to change the status quo...
...give their personal appraisal of the current system and to offer suggestions as to how to improve the situation, the University is taking seriously the student voice on this issue. Allowing students to express their own feelings about UHS is imperative for the process of changing the status quo, and we applaud the University and David Rosenthal '59, the director of UHS, for initiating the focus groups...
...forget that when he was killed in 1968, King was organizing the Poor People's Campaign whose goal was to expand greatly the Federal Government's role in eradicating poverty. King, for all his commitment to nonviolence, was a radical advocate of social change who deliberately disrupted the status quo in pursuit of racial justice, not a milquetoast advocate of Hallmark Card-style brotherhood between the races...
...learn." Bill Clinton has intoned that line almost as a mantra since before he became President. "Nothing could be more important than getting Americans prepared for the increasing global competition," Clinton said during the 1992 campaign. He seemed to really believe it, offering a scathing critique of the status quo. The theme was first expressed by Robert Reich, who would become Labor Secretary, and then enunciated in Clinton's book Putting People First. There the candidate declared, "While our global competitors invest in their working people, seven of every 10 dollars American companies spend on employee training goes to those...