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When the wheat quota for his Western Australia farm was cut in 1969, Leonard Casley protested that the government was trying to make him a pauper. Rather than let that happen, Casley decided to make himself a prince...
Unlike Boston's regular schools, which are still predominantly white or black, the magnet schools will have a racial quota, reflecting the city's total enrollment: 52% white, 36% black, 12% other minorities. Only about 25% of these students will live in the district of the magnet school...
...equal access is a move away from quotas and "an artificially constructed student body," why has Harvard essentially promised alumni and concerned men in its community that there will be little or no change in the present male admissions quota...
Until recently the Chinese community could take care of itself. Before 1949, many Chinese hoped merely to save enough money to go home, and afterwards, local benevolent associations handled most immigrants' problems. But when Congress abolished the national origins quota in 1965, a deluge of immigrants from Hong Kong soared to a level which now exceeds the communities' capacity to deal with them, but the Chinese still remain one of the least heard or noticed American minorities...
...equal access is a move away from quotas and "an artificially constructed student body," why has Harvard essentially promised alumni and concerned men in its community that there will be little or no change in the present male admissions quota...