Word: racial
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...would lose their posts because some of their animal cage-washing duties could be completed by machines. But the four employees charged that they were actually to be fired because of their race and ethnicity. In recent weeks, students have rallied around them, forming a group to protest alleged racial discrimination against Harvard employees. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert Mitchell said Monday afternoon that the employees would not be laid off. “A committee of labor and management representatives are looking into this entire layoff process,” he said. He said although he could...
...students, the Boston University College Republicans announced Monday that the group will be awarding a $250 scholarship that requires applicants to be at least 25 percent Caucasian. The move was intended to provoke discussion on “the morally wrong practice” of using “racial preferences rather than merit” in awarding scholarship money, according to a statement from the BU Republicans. The Republican group’s president, Joseph J. Mroszczyk, said last night that he first heard of the idea for a Caucasian-only scholarship from Jason Mattera, the former College Republicans...
...Here's the television I really will miss now: the cameras taken into the homes of every one of those twelve willful jurists who sprung O.J. free 12 years ago and made a mockery of the law by trying to turn a brutal murderer of two into a racial victim/hero. I wanted to see their faces as the man they declared innocent described to the world how he would have taken-nonsense: how he did take-the knife to Nicole's throat...
...district does not believe that [alternatives] would work as well at achieving racial integration,” he added...
...going to get a lot of questions like, ‘Is race a determining factor?’ and I’m not sure that you came up with a fully satisfying answer,” said Minow, who recommended that Mellen emphasize the non-racial factors that are decisive in admissions...