Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges against Thernstrom were first madepublic last month when the students brought theircomplaints about Thernstrom's lectures inHistorical Studies A-25, "The Peopling ofAmerica," to the Committee on Race Relations--anon-disciplinary, advisory body on race issues...
...three-way tie in the Democratic race prompted former President Jimmy Carter to observe, "I think it's accurate to say the chances are less likely that one of the candidates will arrive in Atlanta with a clear majority...
...Vice President apparently tried to nudge Dole from the race. He declined his rival's challenge to debate him in Illinois with a telegram that said the time had come to "look ahead to the issues which distinguish us from the Democrats...
...academic freedom--as has happened in this case. Comments which Thernstrom and his supporters find justifiable are absolutely out of bounds in the eyes of some students. For them, Thernstrom's appeal to academic freedom is nothing more than a sham which avoids the more important issue of race relations on campus...
...Race relations or not, the Thernstrom case still contains a threat to academic freedom. However Thernstrom is not the victim of a witch-hunt by crusading students, as The Salient would have it. Rather, the problem lies in the breakdown of communication between students and faculty, which prevents the community from coming to a common understanding of what can and cannot be accepted in academic discourse...